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| Inmates told to pay $50 to visit children |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 05/16/2005 |
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Inmates must pay a $50 fee if they want to visit their children, a new policy that has angered jailed parents. The fee covers the cost of transporting inmates two blocks from the Blair County (Pa.) Jail to the courthouse, where the visitations take place, and the cost of paying two sheriff's deputies to attend the visitations, Sheriff Larry Field said. The fee, which Field instituted last month, also cuts down on frivolous visits, he said. Forty prisoners, who have 72 children total, voiced their opposition to the fee in a letter sent to the Altoona Mirror newspaper. "How on God's earth can they make their own law, and for people with no money?" inmate Lisa Whitehead wrote in the letter. The jail's warden said he is considering other ways to pay for the cost of the visits. |
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