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IA: Taxpayer bill at Fort Madison prison: $40,598 per inmate annually

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Taxpayer bill at Fort Madison prison: $40,598 per inmate annually Blog post by William Petroski ? November 11, 2010 Housing convicts in Iowa?s prison system isn?t cheap, according to a new report by the Iowa Legislative Services Agency. At the Iowa State Penitentiary at Fort Madison, where the state?s most dangerous inmates are incarcerated, the annual cost per prisoner during the past fiscal year was $40,598 each. The average daily population was 1,055 offenders. Ground was broken earlier this year on a new Fort Madison maximum-security prison that will cost about $131 million. Work has also begun on a $68 million expansion and renovation project at the Mitchellville state women?s prison. State appropriations to the Iowa Department of Corrections represent about 6...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on November 12, 2010 (boomark / email).