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i dont believe it ??
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i have just heard via tv, it costs over £41,000 per year to keep a prisioner in prison for 1 year, why ?
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The UK prison budget is about 2 billion and there are about 95,000 prisoners.
I make this about £21,000 a year.
I suspect journalists are inflating the figure by adding in any other costs that they can think of like court costs, legal aid etc which are not really appropriate.
Still who cares when the point is to get everybody worked up and nobody's checking your figures?
Which TV source was this by the way?
I make this about £21,000 a year.
I suspect journalists are inflating the figure by adding in any other costs that they can think of like court costs, legal aid etc which are not really appropriate.
Still who cares when the point is to get everybody worked up and nobody's checking your figures?
Which TV source was this by the way?
Hmmm - I don't tend to trust statistics I hear off of the media they are bu66ers for upping the numbers to make a big sensationalist story.
Here's the Hansard report from Parliament, about a page or so down the official figure was about 23 thousand a year in '08-'09
http://www.publicatio.../text/101220w0007.htm
See what I mean about journalists?
Here's the Hansard report from Parliament, about a page or so down the official figure was about 23 thousand a year in '08-'09
http://www.publicatio.../text/101220w0007.htm
See what I mean about journalists?
The cost per inmate cannot be easily calculated,, Dividing the prison upkeep cost by the number of inmates is just too simplistic.
If a prison costs say, £1m. per year, and there is only 1 inmate, then that's the cost per head. Add another prisoner, and the cost is halved. Ergo, all prisons should be crammed . The more the merrier. The more the cheaper.
Put another way, if an inmate is discharged, the prison doesn't immediately save £1000 per week.....does it ?
If a prison costs say, £1m. per year, and there is only 1 inmate, then that's the cost per head. Add another prisoner, and the cost is halved. Ergo, all prisons should be crammed . The more the merrier. The more the cheaper.
Put another way, if an inmate is discharged, the prison doesn't immediately save £1000 per week.....does it ?
