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Also, double check this Radical Reference site itself - we have had many questions on prison statistics - though I don't recall finding sources that would answer this specific question, for those that
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ANSWER: prison population statistics and health care costs
Submitted by jim miller on Wed, 04/02/2008 - 7:22pm.QUESTION: Prison Population statistics and health care costs
Submitted by Anonymousy on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 9:12am.question / pregunta:
I'm doing a research project in which I try to estimate the cost of health care for prisoners as a function of age. The best way (that I can think of) to do this is to find the prison health care spending of each state, and also the prison population characteristics.
The question is, does anyone know where I can find prison population statistics that include age? I need this for each state, and/or the federal prison system. If someone knows how to use census data files, that might help - their summary statistics don't have enough information to be useful.
Thanks for your time.
