Each prisoner we lock up costs $100,000 per year
Corrections' annual report says a sentenced prisoner costs the department $307.53 per day. The same report puts the cost of a remand prisoner at $239.17 per day. The main reason for this difference is because sentenced prisoners generally have longer unlock hours, more case management and a series of mandated programmes such to attend. The same report gives an average population of 6816 sentence prisoners and 2377 remand prisoners. The weighted average cost therefore works out at $105,809 per prisoner, per year.
Fact or Fiction: How correct are corrections claims?
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