Financial Obligations
Related Information
Reentry News Clips
4/22/2008: Providence Journal (RI): Skipped debit hearings put 2,500 in ACI
Publications
Court Debt and Related Incarceration in Rhode Island from 2005 through 2007
Rhode Island Family Life Center
(2008)
Debtors' Prison: Prisoners' Accumulation of Debt as a Barrier to Reentry
Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law
(2007)
Legislation
(WI) Restitution and Sentencing (Statute 973.20)
(OR) Child Support (Administrative Rule 137-055-3300)
Our Publications
This publication discusses how policymakers can increase accountability among people who commit crimes, improve rates of child support collection and victim restitution, and make people’s transition from prisons and jails to the community safe and successful.