By David Kibbe Standard-Times staff writer September 20, 2007 6:00 AM BOSTON — Bristol County Sheriff Thomas M. Hodgson visited the Statehouse Wednesday to testify in favor of a bill that would allow state and county correction facilities to charge a daily fee to inmates. Earlier this decade, Sheriff Hodgson began charging Bristol County inmates a $5 daily fee to partially offset the cost of their incarceration. A Superior Court judge ruled in 2004 that the fee was illegal; Sheriff Hodgson's appeal is pending in the state Appeals Court. Besides reimbursing taxpayers, Sheriff Hodgson said, the fee would teach inmates a lesson about accountability. He wants to waive unpaid fees for indigent inmates if they stay out of trouble for two years after their release. The sheriff said inmates who have money for candy and cookies should have to pay something for their incarceration. "These guys who live in a government facility are the ones that contribute the least and cost the most," Sheriff Hodgson said after testifying before the Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee. The legislation, filed by Sen. Bruce Tarr, R-Gloucester, would set a fee of $2 a day. It would also require the probation department to determine whether inmates have the means to pay the fee at the time of sentencing. Sheriff Hodgson would rather see a fee of at least $5 a day. He also would prefer a formula that allows local correctional facilities to decide who is indigent. The sheriff said probation officers don't have time to take on such a large number of evaluations. He testified in favor of similar legislation two years ago, but it failed to win passage in the Legislature.
Making convicted persons pay for their crimes? interesting concept
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