Prisoner Upkeep Now $222K

The cost of keeping federal prisoners in a maximum security penitentiary now averages almost a quarter million a year, new documents show. The Correctional Service blamed fixed costs in what is one of the world’s most expensive prison systems: ‘The staff-to-inmate ratio is one to one.’

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