A living death: Sentenced to die behind bars for what?

Re:A living death: Sentenced to die behind bars for what? by fallinghawks on Saturday November 16, 2013 @03:34AM (#6744171)

I may be missing something as I've just skimmed this thread, but 13K has got to be referring to the per-prisoner cost. Unless the prison has no utility consumption, no services, no food, and has one employee who's a part-time janitor.

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Re:A living death: Sentenced to die behind bars for what? by thaumasiotes on Saturday November 16, 2013 @04:07AM (#6744227)

As a second point, and speaking without knowledge, it's conceivable for a prison to be bringing in revenue such that it only operates at a loss of (for example) $13K annually.

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Re:A living death: Sentenced to die behind bars for what? by thaumasiotes on Saturday November 16, 2013 @03:51AM (#6744201)

Plausible. The other comment doesn't actually specify what kind of costs it's referring to; I initially thought it was per-prisoner costs and decided on second thought that $167k per prisoner per year in new york made no sense at all.

Food for a year is barely even noticeable in $13K; if they cost $5 / day to feed that would come in under $2K / year. Where's all the money going?

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Re:A living death: Sentenced to die behind bars for what? by lmm on Saturday November 16, 2013 @05:36AM (#6744375)

At a guess, staffing the prison. People are the most expensive part of most businesses.

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