Quote:I think, and you can correct me if I'm wrong, that prisons are handled at the State level not the federal level, so that point is moot - the US Fed government can't take from the State government's revenue!
There are federal prisons too, Danny. Thanks to republicunt idiots we are still paying a fortune to keep Guantanomo Bay open so, in a sense, it really isn't about the money...except when they want it to be.
http://news.yahoo.com/new-report--gitmo-...48004.html
Quote:The United States government spends about $2.7 million per prisoner per year to operate the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba, the Washington Post reports.
That estimate comes from a recent study by the Miami Herald’s Carol Rosenberg, who has covered Gitmo since 2002. According to Rosenberg, the U.S. will spend $454 million this year to maintain the facility and pay troop salaries, among other fees — a little under half a billion dollars.
With only 166 prisoners, that works out to an annual cost of about $2.7 million per detainee. For a point of comparison, California spends an annual $47,000 per prisoner, according to a 2010 study from that state’s government.