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MA: Victory!- House-Senate Ways and Means Committee does NOT include jail fees in budget. Creates a Commission to Study Feasibility of Fees

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

A victory! The House-Senate Ways and Means Conference Committee has chosen NOT to include either of the House or Senate Budget Amendments that would have allowed sheriffs to charge fees. Instead they have opted to form a commission to study the feasibility of establishing fees to prisoners. All of the budget amendments calling for jail fees have been defeated. The next step is to remain vigilant as the Commission is established so that we can communicate our experience and ideas with Commissioners. Many thanks to everyone who lobbied, called and wrote their legislators and to the legislators who opposed the Amendments. Lois Ahrens and Nancy Ahmadifar SECTION 177. There shall be a special commission to study the feasibility of establishing inmate fees...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 24, 2010 (boomark / email).