Criminal Justice Debt: A Barrier for Reentry

Alicia Bannon, Mitali Nagrecha, Rebekah Diller Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law April 23, 2020

Summary

This report analyzes 15 states with the highest prison populations and the effects of "user fees" on individual with criminal convictions. The analysis considers how the rush to collect "user fees" paves the way back to prison or jail, thus resulting costs to the public.

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