“Meanwhile we can’t even execute the guilty murderers sitting in prison. If they’re so hot to kill people, why don’t they start with them first. “
Then we can stop feeding them! There was a guy in a NY prison for 45 YEARS. I wonder how much the total taxpayer bill was for him?
In addition to the human costs of incarceration, the monetary burden is staggering. It costs $32,000 per year to incarcerate an inmate in a New York State prison and $64,000 to confine a woman in a New York City jail.
Source: http://projectgreenhope.org/advocacy/cost_prison.shtml