[whoever]

Prisons:

Did you know that it costs forty thousand dollars a year to house each prisoner?

Geewhilikers, for forty thousand bucks a piece I'll take a few prisoners into my house.

I live in Los Angeles. I already have bars on the windows.

I don't think we should give free room and board to criminals. I think they should have to run twelve hours a day on a treadmill and generate electricity. And if they don't want to run, they can rest in the chair that's hooked up to the generator.

[Billie]

It irritates me, too, who - just think - in prison, these criminals are getting fed and clothed....and we have poor unfortunate homeless who may go hungry - or freeze to death. What bothers me the most is the ones who are sentenced to death, and we keep feeding them for 10 years or more while their lawyers file appeal after appeal.

[4TheFlag]

Hi who,

Re: PRISONS

I worked 15 years for the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

The cost of incarcerating an inmate depends on the Security level of the Institution, $40,000 is on the high end, that is MAX secure, like Florence, CO, Leavenworth, KS, Marion, IL...then you get to the Medium and Low custody inmates and the cost goes down substantially, I believe a Low was around 12-15,000 a year when I left.

Also, you will NEVER guess what it cost to feed an inmate a day, I bet you will be astounded....