FL Citizens Opposed to Newly Mandated Inmate Banking Fees
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We the undersigned are opposed to the recent enactment of House Bill 1875, specifically lines 625 through 629 which reads:
625 (1) The Department of Corrections may:
626 (h) Charge an administrative processing fee of up to $6
627 each month to inmates for banking services. Such fees shall be
628 deposited into the department's Grants and Donations Trust Fund
629 and shall be used to offset the cost of the department's
As family and friends of inmates currently housed in Florida prisons, we object to the new banking fees based on our contention that the monies being charged to inmates comes directly from Florida citizens making the fees a redundant taxation on our income. Currently, Florida citizens are afforded free banking from banking institutions and we find it irregular that the state has enacted a bill that charges a fee for inmate banking when its banking institutions do not. As Florida citizens we remained silent concerning all monies accumulated in the past by the Department of Corrections via interest collected from bank accounts set up for inmates while incarcerated in the Florida system. It has become painfully obvious that the interest made from Florida citizens monetary assistance to inmates was not enough to suffice Floridas budget deficit, making the creation of this new amendment a supplemental taxation of our income to be used other than initially intended. We emphatically protest the misuse of our income as a mean to force a donation of our monies to the state.
Therefore, we the undersigned reiterate our strong objection to the misuse of our monies and demand reimbursement to said accounts until or unless we are consulted with regard to our acceptance or rejection concerning the forfeiture of said fees to the state.
625 (1) The Department of Corrections may:
626 (h) Charge an administrative processing fee of up to $6
627 each month to inmates for banking services. Such fees shall be
628 deposited into the department's Grants and Donations Trust Fund
629 and shall be used to offset the cost of the department's
As family and friends of inmates currently housed in Florida prisons, we object to the new banking fees based on our contention that the monies being charged to inmates comes directly from Florida citizens making the fees a redundant taxation on our income. Currently, Florida citizens are afforded free banking from banking institutions and we find it irregular that the state has enacted a bill that charges a fee for inmate banking when its banking institutions do not. As Florida citizens we remained silent concerning all monies accumulated in the past by the Department of Corrections via interest collected from bank accounts set up for inmates while incarcerated in the Florida system. It has become painfully obvious that the interest made from Florida citizens monetary assistance to inmates was not enough to suffice Floridas budget deficit, making the creation of this new amendment a supplemental taxation of our income to be used other than initially intended. We emphatically protest the misuse of our income as a mean to force a donation of our monies to the state.
Therefore, we the undersigned reiterate our strong objection to the misuse of our monies and demand reimbursement to said accounts until or unless we are consulted with regard to our acceptance or rejection concerning the forfeiture of said fees to the state.
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Regina R
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This is absolutely horrible for the state to take money from inmate's families, when having a loved one incarcerated in difficult enough and finding $$ to give them a little help and hope. UNBELIEVABLE!!
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Catherine C
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I am a wife of an inmate who is incarcerated for something he did not do and I feel that not only are we being punished by being apart, but also financially now that I am a single mother and barely make enough to keep my head above water. These fees are r
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Bernice H
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The families of inmates should not be charged a service fee for banking. We all have free banking, outside, Where is the interest going? It is inot the inmates paying for this it is the taxpayers with loved ones inside. This should be reconsidered, and th
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Governor Jeb Bush, the Florida State House and Senate, and DOC Secretary James V. Crosby
Governor Jeb Bush, the Florida State House and Senate, and DOC Secretary James V. Crosby
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