Administrative Office of the United States Courts: “In fiscal year 2006, it cost up to $24,443.08 to keep a federal inmate incarcerated for 12 months, and $3,535.18 for a federal offender to be released under the supervision of a probation officer for the same period. The annual cost of imprisonment in a Bureau of Prisons facility was $24,443.08, and placement in a community corrections center cost $21,588.47. Those figures were provided by the Bureau of Prisons.”