cost of housing an inmate in prison
One study estimated that the aver-. age per-cell cost of housing an inmate in a supermax prison. is $75,000, as opposed to $25,000 for an inmate in the gen-. eral population.3. While many states do not publish data on the costs of isolat-. ed confinement in their prisons, a survey of available figures. clearly reveals the high price of solitary .