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| Pay $25 to Visit Behind Bars. Huh? |
| By bet.com - Danielle Wright |
| Published: 09/14/2011 |
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Visitors are outraged that a "background check" fee is being charged and allocated for building repairs in Arizona. You may be charged a fee when seeing a movie or visiting a museum, but there is one fee that has people in Arizona furious: a fee for visiting an incarcerated person in prison. Under a new Arizona state law, adults will have to pay a one-time $25 "background check" fee when visiting any one of the state’s 15 prisons. And where’s the money going? Toward maintaining ten of those state-run prisons. Many Arizonans are not happy about the fee and are taking action. A prison-reform group recently sued the Arizona corrections department, calling the fee "unconstitutional," but corrections officials are responding by saying that the fees will insure the inmates’ safety. "For me, it is not the $25 fee that is an issue," PJ Longoni, who already pays hundreds of dollars for toiletries, a television and legal fees for locked-up family and friends, told the Associated Press. "It is when it is combined with the other costs of caring for an inmate, then it becomes a burden to me." The law went into effect July 20 and since then, potential visitors have wondered why a background check would go toward building repairs. Others have worried that the fee would actually reduce the numbers of visitors. Read More. |
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