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Table 4 below reports arrests for distribution and the costs associated with it. b Those costs were approximately $1 million in 2002. 1 Apr Table 4 Mari uana Distribution Arrests .r Marijuana- Marijuana- Cost of Manufacture Year Sale/Manufacture Sale/Manufacture Enforcement 1997 210 0.30% $576,861 1998 166 0.26% $545,697 1999 159 0.26% $568,208 2000 167 0.26% $574,859 2001 125 0.21 % NA 2002 240 0.38% $969,749 2003 159 0.27% NA 2004 110 0.18% $495,576 Sources: Arrests from Hawaii State Department of the Attorney General Uniform Crime Report, http://www.cpja.ag.state.hi.us/rs/cih/index.shtml. Police Budgets, U. S. Census Bureau, Federal State and Local Governments, State and Local Government Finances, http://www.census.gov/povs/www/state.html Stronger enforcement efforts are directed at suppliers of marijuana. Assuming that a11240 distribution arrests were tried during fiscal year 2002, and that there were approximately 56,000 cases terminated that yeaz by the judiciary which had a budget of approximately $214 million, then the court costs were approximately $850,000. According to the Department of Public Safety's Budget Office in 2005, each prisoner costs the state approximately $38,000 dollars per year to incarcerate. There were between 14 and 21 prisoners incazcerated for marijuana distribution over the past several yeazs. These prisoners cost the state between approximately $582,000 and $800,000 in direct costs. 13 In addition to enforcement efforts directed towards finding dealers, there are special units directed at eradicating marijuana plants. The federal government funds these, in part, with additional funds provided at the local level. Matching three to one 13 It should be noted that Hawaii prisons suffer from severe overcrowding to the point that mandated court ordered relief has led to the export of prisoners to private prisons on the mainland. Overcrowding has other indirect costs including early release of prisoners and the potential return of these prisoners to criminal activity. See Ilyana Kuziemko and 'r Steven Levitt, "An empirical analysis of imprisoning drug offenders, "Journal of Public ® Economics, 88, 2004. Discussed further below. .r 9