Should prisoners pay for their own court costs?

If a prisoner has used public funds in their defence in a court case and they are subsequently found guilty, should they have to pay back the court and defence costs?
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We be waiting a long time for them to pay back their costs. It also brings up a whole new set of questions. Just like in hospitals padding the bill, I'm sure that if this came into being there'd be a half-dozen lawsuits that the courts were padding the bill.

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They should have to pay back their prison costs, graduate loan style.

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they have it hard enough as it is in prison, and when they get out i highly doubt they will be able to find a job. i won't hire them don't know about you. so lets just leave it, we don't want to give them more reasons to go back in.

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With what, though . . . cigarettes? They don't exactly get to use Mastercard in prison.

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One big problem here.......NO JOB!!

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yes they should

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'KandyMan' you have got to be jokin' when you say' they have it hard enough in prison!!!' ......... Some of them are better off in there than they are in the outside world!!

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Can't get blood out of a stone. Of course, if it's a fraud case and it's found they did have sufficient assets to pay for their own defence, that's a different matter. But I think they do have to repay, or at least have their assets siezed, anyway in those circumstances.

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in an ideal world... Yes,


in an ideal world... communism should work...

in an ideal world... they'd be no crime.

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No, with what, their good looks? Some convicts aren't even capable of working. Are ya gonna lock em' again for not paying? There's a county in Michigan charging inmates $52.00 a day to pay for their room and board, and if they don't pay, they go back to jail to run up a higher bill. It's fascism is all. Government control of the working class poor slave drones, by the ruling elite Illuminati.

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If the defendant has the funds then a POCA hearing will be heard to recoup costs to the public purse.

As for getting a convicted felon to pay for their defence costs when there are no obvious proceeds of crime - well it isn't going to happen.

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For their initial [criminal] court costs ... NO! "The State" brought the charges, and "the State" (really "the taxpayers") should bear the cost.

Lawsuits filed AFTER conviction are a different story! Where the convict prevails in his/her lawsuit (failure to protect convict from reasonably foreseeable dangers and/or misconduct on the part of a State employee), the state (the taxpayers) should bear the cost of the court (and whatever penalty the jury deals out, the convict's victims have first claim on any "profits").

If the lawsuit is unsuccessful (I got CREAMY peanut butter on my samich, I wanted CRUNCHY!, or "the health club quality weight room was not available to me on 15Apr06@ 0045 hours, in accordance to my religious observance, I should be compensated). The convict should bear the full cost of the court, as well as punitive damages, equal to three times the value of the original lawsuit, or $300,000 whichever is more!

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What with?