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Originally Posted by Enid

Did anyone watch that new TV show Coppers? It was on last week and really did open my eyes. It costs £90,000 of tax payer's money to send one person to prison PER YEAR.

90 GRAND. PER PRISONER. PER YEAR. A WASTE OF OXYGEN AND RESOURCES IS COSTING US 90 GRAND. HOW AND WHY IS WHAT I ASK.

Again, they shouldn't be allowed to live. This may make me unpopular, but ol' Adolf was sort of going in the right direction... until he started killing all those Jews.

Yeah i saw Coppers too, wonder where they got that figure from? Official Home Office figures state a prison place in England and Wales costs £41000 per year

"Each new prison place costs £170,000 to build and maintain, and the cost per prisoner per year is £41,000.

Taking the cost of established places and the new build cost would give an average of £105,000 but thats only till the prison is paid for then costs fall back to lower than original levels.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8640399.stm

http://www.civitas.org.uk/pubs/prisonValue.php

However with Scotland factored in it costs £37,500 as per 2007 figures

"The costs of actually keeping prisoners within prison vary significantly, but
average £37,500 per year."

http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/medi...ng_summary.pdf


Maybe the Americans can teach us something about prison costings, it costs on average $22,000 per prisoner per year, thats less than £15,000.