. >> good morning, i want to thanu you for coming on and sharing a .er story and trying to make the change. so i want to say thank you for that.about $4pe so i read somewhere where they spend about $40,000 per inmate do the taxpayers or government or both and it seems it's insensitive for the sticky being built and that's a lot of money and so gives them an incentiveat to keep locking up more and i me agnosed peoplewi a second common is thai was diagnosed with a mentalh me do wh thend i had never had to deal with the criminal or the justice system, but since having drugrsave dealt with several things and i believe that like you said drug users need treatment, people with mental illness n need treatment and thk you. >> i understand what he ist he s sa saying. .. issue, you run -- depending where you are at, and depending on the system, you could say that an inmate costs $100,000 a year depending on where they are being held. the bottom line is state government across the country, it cannot sustain these costs. that is why you see a lot of state governments across the united states that are