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MD: Parole Fee Burdens People Trying to Rebuild Their Lives

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Parole fee burdens ex-offenders Average $750 debt hinders efforts to rebuild life after prison, study says Baltimore Sun By Julie Scharper March 23, 2009 Andrea Brinkley, a mother of three, says she did not realize that she owed a parole supervision fee until she received a bill for $2,200. She works as a housekeeper at Mercy Hospital in Baltimore. (Baltimore Sun photo by Lloyd Fox / March 20, 2009) A monthly fee charged to Maryland parolees often grows to a burdensome debt that hinders their attempts to build a life after prison and runs counter to the mission of the parole program, according to a study that will be released this week. More than 80 percent of parolees do not pay the state parole supervision fee on time and some consider committing crimes to pay the fee, which amounts to an average of $750, according to the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University Law School...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 26, 2009 (boomark / email).