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ID: Prisons looking at charging fees to inmates, families, parolees

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

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Prisons looking at charging fees to inmates, families, parolees By Brad Iverson-Long January 19th, 2011 The Idaho Department of Correction (IDOC) is looking into charging or raising user fees to offenders and their families on things such as visits, including in-person or through online video conferencing, and cost of supervision for people on probation and parole. ?We need to find a way to offer the core services of community protection that are our mission. We need to be creative in that process,? IDOC Director Brent Reinke said. The fees could bring in more than $1 million to the department. ?There?s really nowhere in the agency we can go to cut more staff.? By Brad Iverson-Long January 19th, 2011 The Idaho Department of Correction (IDOC) is looking into charging or raising user fees to offenders and their families on things such as visits, including in-person or through online video conferencing, and cost of supervision for people on probation and parole...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 20, 2011 (boomark / email).