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    Angry What to Do if You Can't Afford the Monitoring Charges for Home Detention

    My question involves criminal law for the state of: California

    I have little income and could not afford work release for my conviction Hs11377 and Hs11364 misdemeanors. I asked for jail time. Was sentenced to 80 days jail. The jail is full so I spent 4 days and was released. I went to probation and I guess supposed to do the remainder of my time on electronic momonitoring (home detention ) I cannot afford it. But they can't keep me in jail because it's full. I think I am going to get a violation of probation charge. What can I do?

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    Default Re: What to Do if You Can't Afford the Monitoring Charges for Home Detention

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    My question involves criminal law for the state of: California

    I have little income and could not afford work release for my conviction Hs11377 and Hs11364 misdemeanors. I asked for jail time. Was sentenced to 80 days jail. The jail is full so I spent 4 days and was released. I went to probation and I guess supposed to do the remainder of my time on electronic momonitoring (home detention ) I cannot afford it. But they can't keep me in jail because it's full. I think I am going to get a violation of probation charge. What can I do?
    I'm not sure if this is the case in your county but you could ask about it. http://www.heraldcourier.com/news/lo...7a43b2370.html

    In the article: In the agreement with Tennessee Recovering, the inmate pays a one-time $50 fee to the county and then must pay the company $10 a day to help recoup costs with monitoring and other company fees, the sheriff said. The Sullivan County Commission approved and allocated $50,000 for an indigent fund to assist prisoners who may qualify to wear the bracelet, but can’t afford to pay the daily fee.

    This is in Tennessee. I don't know if California does anything like this but it doesn't hurt to find out. Otherwise, you're going to have figure out where to get the money. Anything I've read on electronic monitoring is you pay or you go to jail. If it's full, they can always have you housed in another county.

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