Thinking Outside the Cell
Defined Terms
Baker's Dozen Problems
Articles & Reports - Bibliography
Maximum Security Prisons
or
Maximum Security
Incarceration
Annual Administrative Cost of Australian Maximum
Security Prisons -
$150,000 p.a. per inmate in 2019
Capital Expenditure Cost Of Building New or Modify/Extending Existing Prisons -
$25,000 p.a. in 2019
The average annual cost of each inmate in Maximum
Security Incarceration across Australia is $175,000 pa per inmate [$150,000 pa
Admin
Costs + $25,000 pa
Capital Exp.]
Material Prisoner
Costs Borne By The
Public
Purse
Below
is an extract from
Life in a 'Godless place': A glimpse inside Australia's highest-security prison,
where the nation's most depraved criminals are housed and violence can erupt at
any time -
CINDY TRAN and CANDACE
SUTTON - DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA - 28 July
2015
"Nine News reports it costs $550 a day to
keep a prisoner at SuperMax. ($550 x 365 = $200,750 pa)
'It
is money that I would prefer to see the government spend on hospitals and
schools but it is money to ensure the community in NSW is safe, Mr Elliot said."
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