From Forbes:
There are four security levels in the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP); minimum, low, medium and high. High security prisons are identified as U.S. Penitentiaries that house some of the most dangerous criminals, many doing life sentences. The compounds housing these prisoners which make up over 18,000 (11.8%) of the prison population have double fenced razor wire, electrical charged fencing, perimeter patrols and secure cells. In short, they are expensive to operate.
At the other end of security spectrum are minimum security facilities that are commonly called “camps.” Most do not even have any fencing around them, have fewer staff to monitor the prisoners and routinely allow prisoners to go unsupervised into the community for work details. Camps house those who have less than 10 years remaining in their sentence, many far fewer, and their populations are prisoners that are serving time for crimes that were not violent (low level drug dealers and white collar offenders).
Of the BOP’s nearly 160,000 prisoners, 24,000 of them are minimum security. The BOP’s statement was that the average cost of housing a minimum security prisoner in 2024 is $151.02 per day. The cost of housing someone in a U.S. Penitentiary is $164.87 per day (Lows were $129.72 p/d and Mediums are $122.50 p/d). Since there are more minimum security prisoners than high, the total costs of housing minimum security prisoners far exceeds the costs of housing those in high security. Continue reading >>>
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