> The California Prison system is the third largest penal system in the > country, costing $5.7 billion dollars a year and housing over 161,000 > inmates.
35400 USD per inmate per year, wow. According to [1] in 2004 California median income for a one person family was 33155 USD in 2004 (19893/0.6), there's been some inflation of course and I don't have the year for the quote above. Laurent [1] http://www.hhsc.state.tx.us/research/dssi/ESI/StateMedianFamilyIncome.html _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
