Democrat from Illinois. Barack Obama is the former president of the United States. Obama also served as a U.S. senator from Illinois. He was born in 1961 in Hawaii, where his parents met as students at the University of Hawaii. Obama's father is from Kenya and his mother is from Kansas. He graduated from Columbia University and received his law degree from Harvard Law School.
Elderly more expensive. A 2012 ACLU study estimated that it costs nearly $70,000 a year to house a prisoner over 50, compared with an average of $34,135 for a younger inmate. The increase is primarily driven by much higher health care costs for the older population.ealth care costs for older inmates skyrocket. The growing number of older prisoners represents a potential fiscal time bomb. Elderly prisoners cost more because almost all expenses related to their health care must be borne by state tax dollars.
But $1,612 a year might be eliminated from the annual cost, assuming prisoners who could never be paroled are not enrolled in rehabilitation programs. However, at an annual cost of $137,102, a prisoner who sits on death row for 20 years could cost taxpayers a total of $2,742,040 in that time.Adding to the total cost of LWOP is that the California's prison population is aging.According to an Associated Press story published in July 2008, California housed 4,805 inmates 60 and older at the end of 2007, about 3 percent of all prisoners.sing the Legislative Analyst's numbers, if both were sentenced to life without parole and lived to the age of 65, the 34-year cost of housing, feeding and keeping them secure would amount to $1.598 million a piece, without factoring in the effects of inflation.