Controlling Federal Prison Costs
โ Gregory N. Berritas
๐ Library
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2009
๐ Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated
๐ English
Over the last 10 years, the cost to confine federal Bureau of Prison (BOP) inmates in non-BOP facilities has nearly tripled from about $250 million in fiscal year 1996 to about $700 million in fiscal year 2006. Proponents of using contractors to operate prisons claim it can save money; others questi