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... resulting from community supervision. Unpayable criminal justice debt serves no one. The Burden of Criminal Justice Debt in Federal Community Supervision LAURA I APPLEMAN Van Winkle Melton Professor of Law, Willamette University I. Introduction The federal criminal justice system routinely requires...

... for Justice, as well as several others, have shown that imposing criminal justice debt can interfere with reentry and rehabilitation. In response to this identified problem, the Vera Institute of Justice is exploring a potential demonstration project that would help jurisdictions generate revenue and hold...

... for mass incarceration specifically, propelled a staggering increase in criminal justice debt. Unlike the state laws to which the Kelly v. Robinson court deferred, today’s revenue-generating fines and fees practices actually undermine public safety by distorting law enforcement priorities. They deter...

... of satisfying full payment generally decreasing as time goes on. These findings suggest that many people struggle with criminal justice debt, but that this problem disproportionately impacts indigent Washingtonians, subjecting them to a greater possibility of harm through the various methods of collections...

...Jeffrey T. Ward; Nathan W. Link Abstract While potential adverse consequences of carrying criminal justice debt are well documented, less is known empirically about the degree to which both assessed amounts reflect ability to pay and how repayment success varies for individuals with dissimilar...

... debt burdens for justice-involved persons to be repaid during their reentry to the community. Second, local criminal justice agencies increasingly rely on fees as a source of operating revenue, raising questions about collections policy and practice. This study focused on a specific context of LFO debt...

... and Recidivism in Reentry? NATHAN W. LINK* Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University Camden I. Introduction In recent years, there has been a surge in research on legal nancial obligations (LFOs)1 and resulting criminal justice debt.2 This scholarship has clari ed the numerous ways in which...

...., to the sheriff, to the court, to witnesses). For those who could not pay the criminal justice debt (i.e., most of the Black people who were convicted), their sentence of hard labor was extended to pay those fees. As Blackmon noted, in some ways this system was even worse than slavery. Under slavery, owners had...

... to pretrial detention are more likely to plead guilty,2 have a greater likelihood of conviction,3 face longer sentence lengths,4 are at an increased risk of recidivism,5 and accumulate greater criminal justice debt.6 There is also evidence that pretrial detention exposes individuals to communicable diseases...

... been an almost exponential increase in our collective understanding of the potential collateral harms of criminal justice debt.4 Poverty and eco- nomic uncertainty play a much more notable role in punishment when LFOs become paramount.5 While more rigorous empirical work is necessary to better quantify...

... of an overwhelming number of repayment obligations. How this mix of debts and the ways people choose to prioritize them impacts criminal justice outcomes is not well understood. LFOs are too often considered as a single, lump-sum debt (e.g., due to limitations in administrative data or theoretical framing), which...

... system became increasingly nancialized, evidenced by the widespread use of legal nancial obligations (LFOs) such as nes and fees. Financialization has shifted the costs of criminal justice functions onto defendants, creating long-term debt, increasing justice involvement, and disproportionately...

... in its rates of parole supervision? (The answer is yes, as will be seen in a forthcoming Data Brief from the Robina Institute). Is the U.S. an outlier, by world standards, in the crushing criminal justice debt burdens placed on offenders who are usually poor, and have often been convicted only...

... Prisons (Oct. 2010), httpswww.aclu.org/report/ penny-rise-americas-new-debtors-prisons? redirect¼prisoners-rights-racial-justice/penny-rise-americasnew-debtors-prisons; Alicia Bannon et al., Brennan Center for Justice, Criminal Justice Debt: A Barrier to Re-entry (2010), httpswww.brennancenter.org/sites...

... Accumulating nancial debt due to legal sanctions is common for individuals on community supervision.6 Individuals may experience dif culties balancing their criminal justice nancial obligations with payments for basic necessities and household responsibilities.7 Financial sanctions may also serve...

.... In The Unintended Sentence of Criminal Justice Debt, the authors explain the burden of fines and fees, as well as explore a potential demonstration project that would retain the revenue-generating aspect of fees and fines while minimizing the unintended negative justice outcomes. For some offenders...

... restitution in federal cases are dif cult to nd. Evidence from the state systems suggests disparities; see, e.g., Alicia Bannon, Mitali Nagrecha & Rebekah Diller, Brennan Center for Justice, Criminal Justice Debt: A Barrier to Reentry 4 (2010), httpswww. brennancenter.org/sites/default/ les/legacy/Fees...

... Debt: A Barrier to Reentry (2010). 7 Fisher v. State, 832 S.W. 2d 641 (Tex. App. Corpus Christi 1992). FEDERAL SENTENCING REPORTER VOL. 34, NO. 2 3 DECEMBER FEBRUARY 2022 143 8 P. O Daniel et al., Texas Board of Criminal Justice, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, and Judicial Advisory Board...

.... In The Burden of Criminal Justice Debt in Federal Community Supervision Laura Appleman describes how federal supervision levies substantial and often unpayable nancial obligations on returning prisoners, serving no one and making reentry more dif cult. In Rethinking Supervised Release Discovery with an Eye...

.... 3 N. W. Link, Criminal Justice Debt During the Prisoner Reintegration Process: Who Has It and How Much?, 46 Crim. Just. & Behav. 154 (2019). 4 K. R. Kras et al., Compounded Stigmatization: Collateral Consequences of a Sex Offense Conviction, in Handbook on the Consequences of Sentencing...