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| Senate passes ban on charging prisoners for care |
| By concordmonitor.com- Ethan DeWitt |
| Published: 04/26/2019 |
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The New Hampshire Senate voted to repeal the power of New Hampshire’s Department of Corrections to charge prisoners for their stays Thursday, in a voice vote that comes after a Hooksett former inmate was charged for cost of care. House Bill 518 would revoke the “pay to stay” law that’s currently on the books but seldom invoked. Under the law, the Department of Corrections can charge up to the full “cost of care” for inmates – the per capita cost of maintaining the facilities to house them – after a review of their financial situations. The law was most notably used in the case of Eric Cable, a Hooksett man who sued the state for medical malpractice after being released in 2017 for causing a death in a drunken boating accident. After Cable sued, alleging that prison officials had failed to properly treat his Type 2 diabetes, the Department of Corrections counter-sued for $119,000. Cable has since appealed that decision to Merrimack County Superior Court. Read More. |
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