The parallel line will have the same slope which is 5. The perpendicular line will have a slope of which is the negative reciprocal. To assist you in seeing this relationship, look at 5 as the fraction . Its negative reciprocal would then be .
The Source. Cost of incarceration in the U.S. more than $1 trillion. The cost of incarceration in the United States exceeds $1 trillion, or six percent of gross domestic product, and dwarfs the amount spent on corrections alone, finds a new study from Washington University in St. Louis.
From Florida, for example, from 2009 http://www.dc.state.fl.us/pub/statsbrief... Cost of Imprisonment It costs $55.09 on average per day or $20,108 per year to keep an inmate in prison (FY0708) Most of the daily cost to incarcerate an inmate in a major prison is spent on security and medical services.n contrast, a typical adult male facility costs just $44.96 per day to house an inmate (excluding private prisons). When you average all types of state prison facilities together like those listed in the chart below, the daily cost to house an inmate is $55.09.