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Crime And Punishment
(MONEY Magazine) – $128 Average value of goods taken per shoplifting incident $1,023 Average value of goods lost to employee theft, per incident $29 billion Cost to the nation's retailers last year due to theft $6.80 Hourly amount a company called Prison Blues pays the state of Oregon per inmate to produce a line of T-shirts, jeans and jackets similar to those worn by prisoners $25,000 Average annual amount spent to incarcerate a prisoner in the United States $22,000 Average annual salary of a prison guard in the U.S. $6.6 million Estimated annual amount spent by the Indiana Department of Correction to enforce a prisoner smoking ban $8 Amount an Indiana prisoner will spend for one cigarette on the black market. --SRIDHAR PAPPU |
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