Some alarming prisoner statistics and costs

PRICE PER PRISONER

Annual cost to incarcerate an inmate in a California prison
Security $32,019
Inmate health care
Medical care $14,834
Psychiatric services $3,359
Pharmaceuticals $2,143
Dental care $1,246
Facility operations and records
Facility operations $4,334
Classification services $1,798
Maintenance of inmate records $723
Reception, testing assignment $145
Transportation $24
Administration $4,171
Inmate food and activities
Food $2,082
Inmate employment $823
Clothing $354
Inmate activities $102
Religious activities $123
Rehabilitation programs
Academic education $1,237
Cognitive behavioral therapy $823
Vocational training $377
Miscellaneous $93
                                                                       Total $70,810

Naturally the taxpayer picks up the tab

In an  issue of the New Yorker  a(2015) reports that, according to Paris-based Iranian sociologist Farhad Khosrokhavar, "of France's 64,000 prisoners, up to 60% are Muslim. (Muslims are thought to compose only 8% of the population.)"

Based on data from 2011, PewResearch Center estimated that Muslims made up 9% of the 1,598,780 state and federal prisoners in the United States. Pew also reported that as of 2010, about 0.8% of the U.S. population was Muslim, up from 0.6% in 1990. Data allegedly provided by the federal Bureau of Prisons reported that, as of 1997, Muslims made up 7.27% of the federal prison population.

In other words, Muslims are overrepresented in the French prison population by 7.5 times their percentage of the population. In the United States, although their overall percentage is smaller, Muslims are overrepresented in the prison population by 11.25 times their percentage of the population