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.
= $1,028,700+ MORE than a non-death penalty case. With the exception of a man convicted last year, the seven Washington inmates on death row now have been there an average of 14 years; add over another half million in prison costs not counting the extra expense of death row.Per Prisoner Per year = $43,352*.so.ashington taxpayers pay about $35,897 a year per prisoner. That would be about $1,256,395 million to house a 29-year-old like Kevin Harper for life. Both mental health and health care costs seem to go up as you keep people for longer periods of time, says Patcholke.