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$22,794 - The average annual cost per inmate in an Arizona state prison.
Although Americans today are living during a period of dropping crime rates, incarceration rates and the average cost per inmate have been on the rise. Arizona’s incarceration rate (not including federal inmates or jail inmates) has risen from 515 inmates per 100,000 residents in 2000 to 599 inmates per 100,000 residents in late 2009. This is several thousand prisoners over its "rated" bed capacity of 35,987, which counts beds that were designed to be occupied by inmates and does not include temporary beds. Additionally, the average annual cost per inmate for most Arizona prisoners reached $22,794 in 2007.
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