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Prison Cost: Opportunities Exist to Lower the Cost of Building Federal Prisons

In an effort to identify opportunities for cost savings in the federal prison system, the General Accounting Office conducted an analysis of federal and state prison construction and operations costs for new medium security prisons. The following are among the findings presented in the report: higher costs for federal prison construction and lower operating costs per inmate day at federal prisons in comparison to state prisons. Appendix IV gives U.S. Department of Justice comments on GAO recommendations and GAO responses to these comments. Accession Number: 009928

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