Perspective: One of the legacies of tough-on-crime policies continues to hurt prisoners and their families.
to recoup the steep financial cost of mass incarceration from the very communities who predominantly fill our nation’s cages.
Since the 1980s, places like Connecticut have increased their use of monetary penalties such as pay-to-stay as they rapidly expanded prison systems that disproportionately target the poor and minority communities. Beginning in the late 1960s, a bipartisan tough-on-crime political wave began.
This climate made pay-to-stay popular with state Republicans and Democrats alike. It also shifted the tax burden to the incarcerated population. As police commission member Louis Goldberg asserted in 1996: “Why should I pay for it? I didn’t break the law. People should be responsible for the actions they cause and the cost associated with that. Why should the taxpayer be left holding the bag?”Since then, the legislature updated the policy to increase its revenue potential.
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