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| Iowa Prisons Analyze Cost Of Inmates |
| By thonline.com |
| Published: 11/22/2010 |
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Justice isn't cheap. In fact, it could cost more than $40,000 to house an inmate for a year, according to a report on the state prison system budget released by the Iowa Legislative Services Agency earlier this month. The report broke down the costs to incarcerate inmates at prisons across the state, including the area's closest prison, the Anamosa State Penitentiary. The increasing costs of incarceration is pressuring the state's budget. The Iowa Department of Corrections is working with a $484 million budget for Fiscal Year 2011. Using a 2009 estimate that there were about 2.3 million Iowa residents aged 18 and older, that translates to an annual cost of about $210 per year for each adult. That figure doesn't take into consideration the separate costs in each county for incarcerating inmates. In Dubuque County, the annual cost for a jail inmate wasn't immediately available, but officials try to recoup some of the costs through inmate fees and by housing federal inmates. Read More. |
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