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California Department of Corrections: The Cost of Incarcerating Inmates in State-Run Prisons Is Higher Than the Department's Published Cost
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California Department of Corrections: The Cost of Incarcerating Inmates in State-Run Prisons Is Higher Than the Department's Published Cost
Publication year:
1998
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: California's Department of Corrections' calculations on the amount of incarceration costs per inmate focus primarily on those operating costs directly related to housing, food, clothing, health care, and inmate activities, and concluded for fiscal year 1996-1997 that annual incarceration costs per inmate were $21,012. This review put the cost at $24, 807 per inmate, primarily because it included capital costs, reimbursements to local governments, and the department's share of state central-service costs in the calculation.