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State and Federal Prisons: Factors That Affect Construction and Operations Costs

GGD-92-73 Published: May 19, 1992. Publicly Released: Jun 23, 1992.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on: (1) costs for individual state and federal prisons; and (2) factors that contributed to differences in prison construction and operations costs.

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Comparative analysisCompensationConstruction costsCorrectional facilitiesCorrectional personnelCost analysisCost controlFacility constructionPrisonersConstruction