Analysis & Commentary
Fees & Fines
Evaluating the Reentry Hurdles of Fees and Fines Debt: A Checklist for State Reentry Taskforces
Information on the re-entry consequences of court-imposed financial obligations.
Authored by: Mitali Nagrecha
– 03/10/10
Pinched Courts Push to Bolster Budgets Through Fees and Fines
Valerie Gainous paid her debt to society, but almost went to jail because of a debt to Florida’s courts….
Authored by: John Schwartz, The New York Times
– 04/07/09
The New Debtors’ Prisons
Here is a tale that sounds like it comes right from the pages of “Little Dorrit,” Charles Dickens’s scathing indictment of Victorian England’s debtors’ prisons. Unfortunately, it is happening in 21st-century America….
Authored by: The New York Times, Editorial
– 04/06/09
Collections Court in Leon County, Florida
Selected findings from forthcoming Brennan Center report on court fees in Florida.
Authored by: Rebekah Diller
– 03/31/09
After Prison, New Debt
A monthly fee charged to Maryland parolees often grows to a burdensome debt that hinders their attempts to build a life after prison and runs counter to the mission of the parole program, according to a study that will be released this week….
Authored by: Julie Scharper, The Baltimore Sun
– 03/23/09
Overcharged
In an article published in The Nation, Emily Jane Goodman, a Justice of the New York State Supreme Court, discusses the negative implications of the fees imposed on criminal offenders nationwide.
Authored by: Emily Jane Goodman
– 09/03/08
Court Fees As Revenue?
Money grabbing imperils justice when state legislatures view the courts as another revenue stream.
Authored by: Rebekah Diller
– 07/30/08
CSG Issue Brief and Report on Criminal Financial Obligations
Authored by: Karen Imas and Rachel McLean
– 01/25/08
Debtors’ Prison—Prisoners’ Accumulation of Debt as a Barrier to Reentry
Prisoner’s accumulation of debt as a barrier to reentry.
Authored by: Kirsten D. Levingston & Vicki Turetsky
– July- August 2007
Rhode Island Family Life Center report
This report recommends four central reforms to decrease unnecessary incarcerations for court debt.
Authored by: The Family Life Center
– 05/01/07