County jails in New York state outside of New York City levy fees of roughly $50 million on incarcerated people each year for phone calls, commissary products and disciplinary tickets, according to a report published Thursday. The report, published by New York City-based nonprofit Worth Rises and the Brooklyn Community Bail Fund, arrived at the dollar figure by extrapolating data obtained in Freedom of Information Law requests fulfilled by 19 counties across the state. The analysis does not include New York City because its...

Source: Wall Street Journal December 19, 2019 21:56 UTC