Most of the criminal justice agencies in the United States run on a very tight budget with very limited resources. That means that most of the time they don’t have the things they need. In between 1962 and 2014 the F.B.I alone spent $178.3 billion mostly because they fought with other agencies for control of the war on drugs until the infamous day of September 11, 2001. That’s when they took the lead on the counter terrorism unit. Most of the money spent by the U.S marshals and Attorneys,however, were to pay the salary of all their employees. Just the prisons alone cost more than $39 billion dollars. That means that holding the inmates cost about $31,286 per inmate.
To process a murder case it costs $4.4 million to