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MA: Jail Fees Defeated--for Now

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Jail Fees Defeated--for Now Valley Advocate Thursday, July 01, 2010 By Maureen Turner An effort to allow county sheriffs to charge fees to inmates has failed, after fierce opposition from critics who say the policy would end up hurting inmates' families and make it that much harder for people to re-enter society after their sentences end. In April, the Massachusetts House passed a budget amendment that would have allowed the state's 14 sheriffs to charge inmates fees for room and board and other services; the following month, the Senate passed a similar amendment. Those two amendments then made their way to a House and Senate conference committee charged with reconciling competing bills from the two sides of the Legislature. Last week, that committee opted to include neither the House nor Senate amendment in the final state budget...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on July 02, 2010 (boomark / email).