Loaded on
March 1, 2025
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2025, page 43
Commissioners of Pennsylvania’s Dauphin County voted on September 19, 2024, to forgive $65,902,534.98 in debt owed by former detainees at the county lockup for unpaid fees they were charged during their incarceration. Such “pay to stay” fees have ballooned over the past few decades, as PLN reported. [See: PLN, Jan. …