In FY2011-12, It Cost Wisconsin Taxpayers $33,414 to Incarcerate Each Inmate In Its Prison System

Source:  Adult Corrections Program.  Information Paper 56.  Wisconsin Legislative Fiscal Bureau, January 2013.

Even after you add room and board......

Related post:
Campaign to Reduce Wisconsin's Prison Population to 11,000 by 2015. (3/15/2013)

Campaign to Reduce Wisconsin's Prison Population to 11,000 by 2015

Sources used for column graph:

Wisconsin Blue Book, 2011-2012

Department of Corrections

Wisconsin Governors
1/4/1971-7/6/1977    Patrick. Lucey (Dem.)
7/6/1977-1/1/1979    Martin Schreiber (Dem.)
1/1/1979-1/3/1983    Lee Dreyfus. (Rep.)
1/3/1983-1/5/1987    Tony Earl (Dem.)
1/5/1987-2/1/2001    Tommy Thompson (Rep.) 
2/1/2001-1/6/2003    Scott McCallum (Rep.)
1/6/2013-1/3/2011    Jim Doyle (Dem.)
1/3/2013-                   Scott Walker (Rep.)

Being Smart on Crime Could Lead to Big Savings.  (Wisconsin Budget Project, 3/14/2013)

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