article_snippet.sent: The magazine says The magazine set out to determine the amount of money the survivors and victims' families from that one incident would need, based on medical expenses, lost wages, court costs, therapy and impact on quality of life.
article_snippet.sent: The legal proceedings alone cost $5.5 million before the trial of the shooter, James Eagan Holmes, had even started.
article_snippet.sent: Based on Ted Miller's findings and the 2012 data, it was determined the yearly total of direct costs is about $8.6 billion.
article_snippet.sent: About $5.2 billion of this relates to prison costs. '
article_snippet.sent: The second, and vastly more expensive category, is indirect costs, such as loss of income, impact on quality of life and payouts to survivors, victims and their families.
article_snippet.sent: Indirect costs amount to at least $221 billion each year, it was determined.
article_snippet.sent: Lost wages alone counts for $49 billion of that figure.
highlights_snippet.sent: The cost of the obesity epidemic is $224 billion .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: $8.6 billion is direct costs, such as prison for those who commit homicide .
  