[EBUCK]

Here is the article from a coupla months ago. Looks like both fed and state combined.

EBUCK

[eaglewatch]

Reality is that it doesn't matter if it is fed or state. Still costs us taxpayers about the same amount and is a major waste of taxpayer money. Perhaps it would have been much better for our country had Plymouth Rock landed on the Puritans, instead of the reverse.

[deport]

thanks.... I suspect most of those serve time in state/county/city facilities rather than federal facilities.

I was looking for Texas cost and the following is the per day cost for facilities in fiscal yr 2000.. Which appears to be well below federal cost.

State Jails...

state operated... $32.08
Privately operated.. $28.64

Institutional Division

Prisons .. $40.65
Private Prisons .. $37.27

In either case Fed or State it isn't cheap.