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Maryland's Parole Supervision Fee

  • When
  • March 26, 2009
    7:00–11:00 a.m. (EDT)
  • Where
  • OSI-Baltimore

The Open Society Institute-Baltimore's Criminal and Juvenile Justice Program presents a discussion on Maryland's parole supervision fee with Rebekah Diller, deputy director of the Justice Program, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law.

Maryland's practice of charging persons on parole $40 a month for their supervision does little to raise state revenue, while undercutting public safety by burdening parolees with debt that they cannot pay.  In a new report, Maryland's Parole Supervision Fee: A Barrier to Reentry, the Brennan Center for Justice finds that the vast majority of persons on parole are unemployed and unable to pay the fee. Under Maryland law, many should be exempt from the fee but the system for granting exemptions is largely broken.

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