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| Inmates forced to pay for jail cell |
| By news.com.au |
| Published: 04/27/2009 |
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THE latest trend in United States law enforcement is to charge prison inmates a nightly accommodation fee for their cell. A night's stay in a new 268-bed lockup in southwest Missouri will get you uniformed pants and shirt, a jail bunk and three squares a day. All for just $45. Stay a year, and you'll shell out $16,425. Like other incarceration agencies across the country, the Taney County jail is charging inmates who have been sentenced to their facility. Sheriff Jimmie Russell says it's a no-brainer. "Why should the taxpayers have to pay? They didn't do anything wrong," he said. "Inmates committed the crime and they should pay." As states and counties try to cut costs and pay the bills, some think the trend will grow. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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