Treatment costs anywhere from $3,000 to $8,000 above the average of $16,680 that Texas spends per inmate in the general prison population.

Sometimes the prison may have to limit visiting per inmate to one day on a weekend, because it is the most popular time to visit.

Costs for feeding and housing was $72 per inmate daily.

The 2005 budget is $28,249,395 and the annual cost per inmate is $25,378.

Mr. Roberts said costs run from just under $40 to $70 a day per inmate.

The operating cost per inmate is thus reduced to about $12,000.

The cost is about $2,000 per inmate, against about $63,000 a year for incarceration.

The prison budget for fiscal year 2005 was $41,082,012, an annual cost per inmate of $19,867.31.

The average annual cost per inmate alone is about the same as the yearly tuition at a private university!

The cost to the government is over $15,000 a year per inmate.