An Inclusive Litany

3/23/92

The U.S. Bureau of Prisons announced that federal inmates would have to pay for their incarceration. The user fee, approved by Congress to offset rising prison costs, is equal to the average cost of one year's incarceration, estimated at between $17,000 and $20,000. Officials estimated that the fee would raise $49 million a year, once they figure out how to collect it.