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MA: Senate passes budget amendment that would allow for jails to charge prisoners $5 a day.

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

I just learned from Jason Lydon that the budget amendment pasted below has now been introduced in the Senate. This is not the same exact language as the House budget amendment that has already passed, but it is very close which means IF it passes in the Senate it can be easily reconciled with the House amendment ----unless we stop it. We had hoped this would not happen, but here it is. Please call your senator and tell them you do not support this budget amendment and that when it comes up for a vote that they need to vote NO! This is harmful to prisoners who will incur debt that in all likelihood they will not be able to repay, harmful to their families who will attempt to find the money to pay the $5 a day fee and will impeded the process of coming home after jail and finding work and housing...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 24, 2010 (boomark / email).