Like jail, which charges inmates exorbitant fees for essentials, electronic monitoring extracts fees from people convicted of no crime
was already on probation when she got into an argument with her room-mate, who called the Indianapolis police. Ms Merchant was taken to jail, where she languished for three weeks because she neither had nor knew anyone with $500 for her bond. Eventually the Bail Project, a national non-profit that pays people’s bail, came to her rescue.
“John”, a defendant in Louisiana, says he paid $180 a month for his monitor, as well as $250 to repay the loan for his bail. Officials often maintain that the fees are intended to cover costs, but sometimes they exceed them. The sheriff of Kane County, Illinois told a local newspaper that monitoring costs $3.75 a day, even though wearers are charged $10.
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