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Author: American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio

Title: In Jail & In Debt: Ohio's Pay-to-Stay Fees

Summary: The ACLU of Ohio is the first to collect and analyze pay-to-stay policies statewide with the report In Jail & In Debt: Ohio's Pay-to-Stay Fees. Pay-to-stay jail fees are the fees charged by local jails to people while they are incarcerated. This report takes a comprehensive look at jails across the state, compares policies, documents impact, and proposes new recommendations to stop locking people in cycles of incarceration and debt. Our statewide investigation analyzes policies at 75 facilities representing 74 counties across Ohio. More than half of jails, 40 of the 75, charge people for their incarceration through a booking fee, a daily fee, or both. Ohioans are getting billed up to $66.09 a day to be in jail. It is a follow up to the 2013 report Adding It Up: The Financial Realities of Ohio's Pay-To-Stay Policies, which explored the financial impacts of pay-to-stay policies in Ohio. This report analyzed how local governments were trying to generate revenue from people in jail, but pay-to-stay fees created more problems than they solved. We suggested counties follow the law and assess for indigence, eliminate costly collections agency contracts, and consider the impact on families.

Details: Cleveland, OH: ACLU of Ohio, 2015. 24p.

Source: Internet Resource: Accessed November 24, 2015 at: http://www.acluohio.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/InJailInDebt.pdf

Year: 2015

Country: United States

URL: http://www.acluohio.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/InJailInDebt.pdf

Shelf Number: 137326

Keywords:
Costs of Corrections
Criminal Fees
Criminal Fines
Criminal Justice Debt
Financial Sanctions
Jail Fees
Jail Inmates