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Brief • February 11, 2013
Filed under: Booking Fees
Markadonatos v. Village Woolridge, IL, Pltf. Appeal Brief, Jail Booking Fees, 2013 Case: 12-2619 Document: 22 Filed: 02/11/2013 Pages: 106 No. 12-2619 _____________________________________________________________________________ IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT _____________________________________________________________________________ JERRY G. MARKADONATOS, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. VILLAGE …
Article • April 15, 2012 • from PLN April, 2012
Ohio Jails Find Loophole to Again Charge Booking Fees by Lockups in suburban Cincinnati just aren’t as profitable as they once were. So sheriff’s offices in southwestern Ohio’s Hamilton and Butler counties are charging prisoners for the time they’re forced to spend in jail. More than 10 years ago, a …
Article • November 15, 2011
Summary Judgment Denied in Challenge to Booking Fee Program by Brandon Sample By Brandon Sample U.S. District Judge Robert J. Bryan denied a summary judgment motion filed by the City of Fife, Washington in a challenge it its booking fee program. Rafael Gonzalez was arrested for soliciting a prostitute. At …
Article • August 15, 2011
New York Jail “Incarceration Cost” Charges Enjoined by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The Supreme Court of Nassau County granted an Article 78 petition against Nassau County that enjoined it from charging non-indigent prisoners a “per diem” incarceration fee, thereby voiding Title 21 and 21-A of the Miscellaneous Laws …
Article • May 15, 2011 • from PLN May, 2011
Study Highlights the Burden of Fees, Debt Collection on Criminal Defendants by Derek Gilna In an October 2010 report examining the fifteen states that have the highest prison populations, the Brennan Center for Justice found that the practices of imposing new “user fees” on criminal defendants, raising the amounts of …
Article • September 15, 2010 • from PLN September, 2010
Pay-to-Stay Jails Unsuccessful in Ohio by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Part of the legacy of the punitive criminal justice philosophy of the 1990s is pay-to-stay incarceration, which involves jails charging prisoners booking fees and per-diem fees. [See: PLN, July 2010, p.10]. The rhetoric behind pay-to-stay programs is that …
Article • July 15, 2010 • from PLN July, 2010
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court: Sheriff May Not Charge Jail Fees by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On January 5, 2010, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts held that the Sheriff of Bristol County could not charge fees for certain jail services. In 2002, prisoners at the Bristol County House of …
Washington State DNA Collection Fee Affirmed on Appeal by On October 15, 2008, Brandy Brewster of Washington State was convicted by a jury for possession of cocaine, for which she was arrested almost two years previously on November 15, 2006. At her sentencing on December 8, 2008, Ms. Brewster was …
Article • April 15, 2010 • from PLN April, 2010
$491,668 Settlement in Class-Action Suit Against Spokane County Jail by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On September 18, 2009, a U.S. District Court in Washington state granted preliminary approval to a settlement in a class-action lawsuit that challenged booking fee procedures at the Spokane County Jail. Shawn Huss, a former …
Article • February 15, 2010 • from PLN February, 2010
Maryland: Parole Supervision Fee Likely Does More Harm than Good by Bob Williams In a 2009 report by the Brennan Center for Justice, a think tank and public interest advocacy group at New York University School of Law, the authors conclude that the state of Maryland’s assessment of a $40 …
Article • February 15, 2010 • from PLN February, 2010
California Parents and Guardians Assessed Fees to Offset Juvenile Detention Costs by Michael Brodheim On February 13, 2009, following an investigation by the Los Angeles Times, the L.A. County Probation Department suspended its practice of billing parents and legal guardians for each day their children spent in juvenile detention. The …
Article • December 15, 2009
Costs of Incarceration Assessed Upon Minnesota Detainees by Minnesota’s Court of Appeals has held that under Minn. Stat. § 641.12 subd. 3(a)(2008), a county may require a convicted offender to pay costs of confinement in a county jail that accrued before the offender was convicted. The statute provides, “A county …
Article • February 15, 2009 • from PLN February, 2009
Kentucky Jails’ Seizure of Funds for Booking, Room and Board Fees Upheld by Kentucky Jails’ Seizure of Funds for Booking, Room and Board Fees Upheld The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that the seizure of jail prisoners’ canteen funds for booking and room and board fees does not …
Making the Bad Guy Pay: The Growing Use of Cost Shifting as an Economic Sanction by Kirsten D. Levingston by Kirsten D. Levingston1 "At some point, we have to be able to say to people who have been incarcerated, and served time on probation or parole upon release, you have …
Article • May 15, 2007
Virginia Jail Housing Fee Upheld by A Virginia statute allows local and regional jails to charge inmates a daily fee of no more than $1.00 a day to help defray the costs of their incarceration. The court dismisses at preliminary screening for failure to state a claim. There is no …
Article • May 15, 2007
Virginia Jail Fees Upheld by The failure to transfer the plaintiff promptly to a prison from a local jail did not violate his rights, since an inmate has no constitutional right to be held in any particular prison. (805) Virginia's prison transfer regulations convey no liberty interest in a specific …
Article • February 15, 2007 • from PLN February, 2007
Seizure of Washington Prisoners’ Cash at Jail Booking Unconstitutional by Michael Rigby Seizure of Washington Prisoners' Cash at Jail Booking Unconstitutional by Michael Rigby On August 29, 2006, a, federal district court in Washington held that a state law allowing jails to confiscate money from prisoners during booking without notice …
Brief • April 14, 2006
Williams v. Clinch County, GA, Consent Decree, Jail Reimbursement Fees, 2006 Case 7:04-cv-00124-HL Document 71 Filed 04/14/2006 Page 1 of 11 FILED U.S. IJISTR!CT COURT IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURtpDLt: GEORGIA FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF GEO~PR 14 PH 2: ~ I VALDOSTA DIVISION (1 <~ DEPUTY CLERK • …
Article • May 15, 2004 • from PLN May, 2004
Minnesota Pay-To-Stay Programs Don't Deliver by Minnesota counties are finding out that charging prisoners for staying in jail is not the cash cow they had hoped for. Forcing prisoners to pay for their own incarceration has become a national trend. In the summer of 2003 the Minnesota legislature followed suit, …
2003 Washington Legislative Round-up by Lonnie Burton In its 2003 session the Washington leg-islature enacted numerous laws affecting prisoners. Highlights of the most relevant laws are as follows: Regional Jails Substitute House Bill 1609 instructs the Sentencing Guidelines Commission to present a plan by Dec. 31, 2003, for creating "pilot …
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