As a regular reader, you already know that 40,000 of the inmates in our county jail are illegal aliens...

Federal officials estimated that about 40,000 of the 170,000 inmates who go through L.A. County jails each year are in the United States illegally.

This doesn't mean 40,000 illegal aliens live there year round, but they move thru there. I'm sure most of the people who go to jail are there for much less time than an entire year. According to you interpretation, the LA County jails must have 170,000 available beds full at all times.

In fact, the number that LA County Jails can hold at any one time is closer to 15,000 (and I'm being liberal... my count is closer to 12,000).

Based on the 15k number, really the cost to operate the prisons on an annual basis at $53.45/day is more like $292.5 million. Thats regardless of residency status.

So, lets assume that a 1/4 of the inmates ON AVERAGE are illegal immigrants. Thats about 3500 at any one time. Not 40,000. And the total cost is just under $70 million a year, under 10% of your numbers.

Still a travesty to be sure, but your exaggeration is unfounded.

You can do better than this Walter, but this is how those whacked out, right wing racist Republicans get their facts, by lying or just using bad info.

Or maybe I'm just looking at the facts entirely wrong. Please correct me where I'm wrong