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gerogie2

(450 posts) Sat Feb 8, 2014, 04:32 AM Feb 2014

Nevada County Plans to Charge Inmates. A waste of time & resources

http://www.katu.com/news/national/Nevada-county-charging-inmates-for-jail-meals-ACLU-upset-244475041.html

A county here in Oregon tried this and only about 3% of the inmates could pay. They ended up spending more money trying to collect then they could have collected in the first place. The collection agencies all said you pay us to collect and we will, but the CA operators knew the poor inmates that had been released would never pay the CA. Finally the county dropped the whole idea.

Most people that have been in jail already have poor credit records, so such a collection on their record meant nothing to them.

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Nevada County Plans to Charge Inmates. A waste of time & resources (Original Post) gerogie2 Feb 2014 OP

I had no idea Oregon tried that davidpdx Feb 2014 #1

its easier to just collect the fees from an inmates commissary balance loli phabay Feb 2014 #2

davidpdx

(22,000 posts)

1. I had no idea Oregon tried that

Reply to gerogie2 (Original post)

Sat Feb 8, 2014, 05:11 AM

Feb 2014

If I had heard about it I would have lobbied against it. They arrest people and incinerating them, then they are responsible for taking care of them. That means food, beds, and health care. If they started rehabilitating some of these people and got them to the point they had jobs it would add tax revenue instead of taking it.

loli phabay

(5,580 posts)

2. its easier to just collect the fees from an inmates commissary balance

Reply to gerogie2 (Original post)

Sat Feb 8, 2014, 05:21 AM

Feb 2014

if they have no balance then it prob means they have no means to pay.

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