Sentence examples for offenders cost from inspiring English sources

In 2010, civil commitment programs for sex offenders cost American taxpayers close to $500 million—eclipsing the $413 million or so spent on domestic and sexual violence programs in fiscal year 2012.

"Over the last two decades, the federal prison population has increased an astounding 790 per cent – sixty per cent of those currently incarcerated in federal prisons are non-violent offenders – costing the American people $80 billion per year".

In a 2010 study, Baker's CEPR colleagues John Schmitt and Kris Warner found that the employment barriers faced by ex-offenders cost the economy between $57 and $65 billion in 2008.

A place in custody for a young offender costs on average £100,000 - more than sending a young person to Eton".

California is planning to build a prison-and-treatment center for up to 1,500 sex offenders expected to cost more than $360 million, and Washington expects to pay about $81 million for a 400-bed center.

"The public look to the criminal justice system to demonstrate that crime is taken seriously, but that means tackling and preventing crime effectively, not merely locking up more and more offenders at massive cost to the taxpayer".

Your biggest cost offenders may be sitting across the board room table from you.

New Jersey already has a distracted driving ban, violations of which can cost offenders up to $400 for the first infraction.

But imprisonment breaks up families and costs offenders their jobs and often their homes.

Policy Exchange said that for each offender, electronic monitoring cost £13.14 per monitored day in England and Wales, while the equivalent in the US was £1.22.

The crime is rational because offenders make a cost-benefit calculation that the hostage will be ransomed quickly3 (Marongiu and Clarke 1993) and apprehension is unlikely (Briggs 2001; Christi 2008).