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Kentucky Supreme Court ruling finds state jails can't take fees from inmates without a judge's order
This is a significant ruling as state jails have made millions taking fees from inmates since 2000, despite the law’s intention that a judge must decide once a case ended if a person could afford to pay jail fees and how much is owed, if anything.
The high court ruled on Oct. 28 that it is unconstitutional for jailers to take money from inmates. Only a sentencing judge is “able to order the reimbursement and billing of incarceration fees, not the county jail,” the ruling said.
