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Nearly every state lets prisons and jails charge inmates for their own incarceration \u2014 room, board, clothing, and doctor\u2019s visits \u2014 in a phenomenon called \u201cpay-to-stay.\u201d<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t know exactly how many prisons and jails take advantage of \u201cpay to stay.\u201d The latest survey, done in 2005, found that 90 percent of jails surveyed charged inmates fees of one kind of another. In an era of tight budgets, the practice is probably even more widespread today. \u2026<\/p>\n

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In many of the statutes the Brennan Center analyzed, states only charge room and board to inmates who are on work release or have a prison job, on the logic that they\u2019re the only ones making money while in prison. (It seems possible that some inmates might be dissuaded from taking prison jobs if they know some of their wages are going to be garnished.) Others take the money out of inmates\u2019 commissary accounts \u2014 which are usually filled by family members on the outside \u2014 or bank accounts.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s particularly worrisome when inmates are being charged for their own medical care \u2014 especially when, as many states do, prisoners get charged a fee for every doctor\u2019s visit they request. Most states set that fee pretty low, around $5, but Texas charges a $100 annual fee for any inmate who asks to see a doctor.<\/p>\n

As the Brennan Center points out, some inmates are afraid to ask to see a doctor if they know their families will get hit with a fee for it \u2014 which increases the risk that an inmate won\u2019t get treated for a contagious disease that will spread throughout the facility.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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