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Earlier this year, Justice Lab<\/a>\u00a0students Wesley Stevenson, Kelsey Grimes, and Sela Cowger, in collaboration with the Youth Sentencing and Reentry Project<\/a>, began to investigate Philadelphia\u2019s practice of billing families for the cost of incarcerating their children. The students\u2019 efforts caught the attention of the Inquirer, <\/em>which ran an in-depth article<\/a>\u00a0on the practice today, with quotes from student Wes Stevenson and Clinical Professor Colleen Shanahan.<\/p>\n

Besides noting the hardship imposed on Philadelphia households, the article points out that the city\u2019s practice reflects a national pattern in which juvenile justice systems are increasingly passing on their costs to families already living in poverty.<\/p>\n

After receiving the Justice Lab analysis and working with the students since last spring, City officials told the Inquirer <\/em>that they want to end the practice of billing parents, and are in discussions with the state Department of Human Services.\u00a0 (Meanwhile, the private attorney who does the collections under a contract with the City told the paper that being billed for their children\u2019s incarceration can actually help families, \u201cbecause once the child\u2010support payments end, it\u2019s like getting \u2018a raise.\u2019\u201d )<\/p>\n

For the full article, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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