The average cost to house an inmate in Texas prisons is $47.50 per day, according to Michelle Lyons, spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Thus it would cost about $17,340 to house an inmate for a year and $693,500 for 40 years, far less than even part of the death penalty costs.
Like many modern plastics, Bakelite was lightweight and durable, and it could be molded into nearly infinite shapes, so its use quickly expanded as manufacturers realized its potential. Consumers primarily were attracted to its aesthetic qualities: a sleek, stylish look coupled with a substantial, high-end feel.
When patients ask why is it called âplasticâ surgery, I usually reply, âWe had plastic before plastic had plastic.â The term plastic means to mold, and is from the Greek word plastikos. It was first used to describe a specialty of surgery in 1837. The first plastic, on the other hand, was made by Alexander Parkes in 1855 by mixing cellulose and nitric acid to produce Parkesine, more commonly known as Celluloid. Leo Hendrik Baekeland invented the first synthetic plastic, Bakelite, in 1907.