Sometimes things in government just don’t make sense. When you look at the facts – the state pays nearly $43 million annually to guard and provide life-sustaining medical care for 32 critically debilitated state prison inmates – something seems out of whack. That’s an average of $1.3 million in costs per person.

Most of these inmates are completely incapacitated: incapable of independent movement or speech and with extremely limited cognitive function. The public safety threat posed by this small number of prisoners is virtually non-existent.