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MA: Fight Over Jail Fees Continues. Activists target key lawmakers over the controversial policy.

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Fight Over Jail Fees Continues Activists target key lawmakers over the controversial policy. Valley Advocate (Northampton, MA) News Thursday, June 10, 2010 By Maureen Turner Efforts to make inmates in county jails pay room-and-board and other fees continue to march forward in the state budget?but not without considerable resistance from activists and criticism from some Valley sheriffs. In late May, the state Senate approved a budget amendment that would allow sheriffs at the state's 14 county jails to collect a portion of an inmate's earnings from jailhouse or work-release jobs to pay for their daily costs, medical visits and other services. State Sen. Gale Candaras, a Wilbraham Democrat, was one of four co-sponsors of that amendment. A few weeks earlier, the House passed its own budget amendment that would allow sheriffs to charge a $5 daily fee, as well as additional fees for certain medical and other services...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 09, 2010 (boomark / email).