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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis KY man was wrongly jailed for 14 months. Then they billed him for his stay.
A Winchester factory worker spent 14 months locked in jail on child porn charges before prosecutors agreed to drop the case because repeated searches of his apartment and digital devices failed to turn up evidence against him.
But as David Allen Jones finally walked free, his life in ruins, the Clark County Detention Center handed him a bill for $4,008. Citing a 2000 state law, the jail demanded that Jones help pay for the cost of his incarceration.
On Wednesday, the Kentucky Supreme Court will be asked to decide if thats constitutional. Jones is suing Clark County and its jailer, Frank Doyle, to ask that his bill be dismissed.
Jones lawyers call the jails actions an affront to the bedrock American principle that a citizen is presumed innocent until proven guilty.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ky-man-wrongly-jailed-14-182854395.html
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)LisaL
(44,974 posts)NT
yagotme
(2,985 posts)I'd be suing to own the whole county.
70sEraVet
(3,524 posts)No doubt he LOST his factory job when they put him in jail for 14 months on a child-porn charge!
LisaL
(44,974 posts)Lost his job, his apartment, etc, per the article.
FakeNoose
(32,823 posts)Even a below-average Kentucky lawyer will know how to "make hay" with this one.
struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)(1) A prisoner in a county jail shall be required by the sentencing court to reimburse the county for expenses incurred by reason of the prisoner's confinement as set out in this section, except for good cause shown ...
https://casetext.com/statute/kentucky-revised-statutes/title-40-crimes-and-punishments/chapter-441-jails-and-county-prisoners/county-jail-budget-and-funding/section-441265-required-reimbursement-by-prisoner-of-costs-of-confinement-local-policy-of-fee-and-expense-rates-billing-and-collection-methods
No evidence? Charges dropped? No trial? No conviction? No sentence? Then what-exactly-the-everlovin-fugg would that "sentencing court" be, which might have the power to order the prisoner to pay?
MagickMuffin
(15,962 posts)No one should have to pay for their incarceration. Fascist gotta be fascists.