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Repaying Debts: Child support, victim restitution should be top priorities for offender payments

After I wrote recently about a slew of bills increasing fees for probationers, Carl Reynolds from Texas' Office of Court Administration pointed out a recent report from his shop in conjunction with Dr. Tony Fabelo of the Council of State Governments' Justice Center titled "Repaying Debts" that addresses these and other closely related subjects. Some of their recommendations fell right in line with the issues raised in my post:Provide lawmakers who are considering legislation that would impose or increase fines, fees, or surcharges with an impact statement projecting the legislation's effect on the ability of a person released from prison or jail to meet his or her child support and restitution obligations.Curb the extent to which operations of criminal justice agencies rely on the collection of fines, fees, and surcharges from people released from prisons and jails...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on April 28, 2009 (boomark / email).