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Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Missouri Repeals “Pay-to-Stay” Law by When Missouri Gov. Michael Kehoe (R) signed HB 495 on March 26, 2025, authorizing a state takeover of policing in St. Louis, the bill included repeal of the Missouri Incarceration Reimbursement Act (MIRA). Also known as “pay-to-stay,” it allowed the state to sue for funds …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Alabama Jail Accused of Granting Detainee’s Medical Bond Just Before Death to Avoid Costly Medical Care by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Alabama’s Dallas County Jail (DCJ) has a “scheme” of releasing very ill detainees to avoid the cost of their medical care. That explosive allegation lay at the …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Impoverished Ohio County Gets New Jail Space After Settling Suit for Bloody Detainee Assault by On June 18, 2024, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) announced $32 million in state funding for a new regional jail to serve Jackson, Lawrence, and Pike Counties. That promises significant savings for Pike County, among …
Publication • 2023
Filed under: Costs
Audit Report on Capital Projects at the Dept of Criminal Justice, March 2023 An Audit Report on OVERVIEW Page |1 Capital Projects at the Department of Criminal Justice Lisa R. Collier, CPA, CFE, CIDA  The Department of Criminal Justice (Department) had strong processes for monitoring capital projects, including projects …
Publication • 2022
Filed under: Costs
Debt Free Justice California-Civil Assessments-The Hidden Court Fee That Penalizes Poverty, March 2022 March 2022 [FL: Debt Free Justice California IDDE FEES ■ c:::::=::::===:::::::i ■ c:::::==:::::::i CIVIL ASSESSMENTS: The Hidden Court Fee that Penalizes Poverty Acknowledgements Contributors Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area Legal Director, …
Salim v. JPay, TX, Preliminary Approval of Settlement, Video Visitation Cutoff, 2019 Case 4:18-cv-00730-ALM-KPJ Document 16 Filed 04/16/19 Page 1 of 12 PageID #: 142 United States District Court EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS SHERMAN DIVISION OUMER SALIM, on behalf of himself and others similarly situated v. JPAY, INC. § § …
Brief • October 12, 2018
Salim v. JPay, TX, Complaint, Video Visitation Cutoffs, 2018 Case 4:18-cv-00730-ALM-KPJ Document 1 Filed 10/12/18 Page 1 of 16 PageID #: 1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS OUMER SALIM, on behalf of himself and others similarly situated § § § Plaintiff, § § …
Article • August 8, 2018 • from PLN August, 2018
Filed under: Costs
Georgia Renewal Statute Requires Prepayment of Costs of Prior Suit by On November 17, 2017, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit brought under Georgia’s renewal statute because the plaintiff failed to pay the costs from a prior case or seek in forma pauperis (IFP) …
Article • November 28, 2017
Filed under: Costs, Juveniles
Ninth Circuit: Incarceration Costs Subject to Bankruptcy Discharge by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson "Seeking to obtain…revenue by unremittingly pursuing legal actions against disadvantaged individuals--the counterproductive practice at issue here--can have damaging effects on the community," the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently declared. "Not only …
Publication • June 15, 2017
Juvenile Law Center - Debtors' Prison for Kids, 2016 DEBTORS’ PRISON FOR KIDS? The High Cost of Fines and Fees in the Juvenile Justice System Authored by Jessica Feierman with Naomi Goldstein, Emily Haney-Caron, Jaymes Fairfax Columbo 2016 DEBTORS’ PRISON FOR KIDS? The High Cost of Fines and Fees in …
Publication • May 1, 2017
The Price of Prisons, Vera Institute of Justice, 2017 May 2017 The Price of Prisons: Examining State Spending Trends, 2010-2015 Chris Mai and Ram Subramanian Research Director’s Note In 2012, Vera’s Center on Sentencing and Corrections published The Price of Prisons: What Incarceration Costs Taxpayers, to answer a simple, yet …
Article • March 28, 2017
Locked Up for Being Poor by Jessica Pishko How private debt collectors contribute to a cycle of jail, unemployment, and poverty by Jessica Pishko, The Atlantic 19-year-old Kevin Thompson didn’t think that he was going to jail the day he pulled his car out of the garage to go to his …
Article • March 28, 2017
Filed under: Police Misconduct, Costs
Police Misconduct Lawsuits Cost Taxpayers, Not Cops, Millions by by RT From big cities to small towns, American taxpayers are footing the bill for police gone rogue. When an officer or department is sued for police brutality or an in-custody death, the municipality is the one to pay up. And it’s …
Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
New Jersey: Jail Time for Unpaid Littering Fine Results in Civil Suit by Anthony Kneisser flicked a cigarette butt out of his car window on the New Jersey Turnpike and found himself jailed when he appeared in court in 2014 for the littering offense, as he couldn’t pay the $200 …
Publication • January 1, 2017
Shackled to Debt, Harvard Kennedy School-National Institute of Justice, 2017 New Thinking in Community Corrections VE RI TAS JANUARY 2017 • NO. 4 HARVARD Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management Shackled to Debt: Criminal Justice Financial Obligations and the Barriers to Re-Entry They Create Karin D. Martin, …
California’s Historic Corrections Reforms, PPIC, 2016 California’s Historic Corrections Reforms September 2016 Magnus Lofstrom, Mia Bird, and Brandon Martin PPIC.ORG © 2016 Public Policy Institute of California. PPIC is a public charity. It does not take or support positions on any ballot measures or on any local, state, or federal …
New Study Documents Lower Pre-arrest Incomes for Prisoners by Derek Gilna A study released last year, prepared by the Prison Policy Initiative (PPI), documented what most criminal justice experts have long suspected – that offenders’ pre-arrest incomes are significantly lower than the incomes of people who are not incarcerated. Interestingly, …
Article • December 7, 2016 • from PLN December, 2016
Missouri Governor Doesn’t Have to Serve as Public Defender by In a letter dated August 2, 2016, the director of Missouri’s Public Defender System called for Governor Jay Nixon – a licensed lawyer who was a four-term Attorney General before being elected governor – to represent an indigent defendant in …
Article • August 23, 2016
Texas Ramps Up Medical Paroles by Matthew Clarke Recently, Texas has increased the use of medically-recommended parole. The parole board approved over twice as many medical releases in Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 than it did in FY 2009. Even so, the 85 Texas prisoners approved to be released for medical …
Publication • July 12, 2016
Report of the Proceedings, Judicial Conference of the United States, 2014 REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE JUDICIAL CONFERENCE OF THE UNITED STATES September 16, 2014 The Judicial Conference of the United States convened in Washington, D.C., on September 16, 2014, pursuant to the call of the Chief Justice of …
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