Costs of Incarceration and Supervised Release

From the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts:

In fiscal year 2005, it cost $23,431.92 to keep someone incarcerated in a Federal Bureau of Prisons facility and $20,843.78 to keep a federal inmate incarcerated in a community correction center.

For the same 12-month period ending September 30, 2005, it cost $3,450 for a federal offender to be supervised by probation officers.

Those figures translate into daily costs of $64.19 for a Bureau of Prisons facility, $57.10 for a community correction center, and $9.45 for supervised release.

Cost calculations were made by the Bureau of Prisons and by the Administrative Office of the United States Courts.

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