County governments are looking for new ways to add revenue to their coffers. I’ve always joked that if they could charge for breathing or for sex, some government would do it!
Well, a supervisor in southern California has come up with an intriguing idea, according to a CBS TV station in Los Angeles:
>>If you do the time in Riverside County, you better have the dime to pay for it.
KNX 1070′s Mike Landa reports that’s the driving sentiment behind one Riverside County supervisor’s efforts to charge jail inmates for their time in custody.
Supervisor Jeff Stone introduced an ordinance this week seeking reimbursements for the cost of jailing inmates that an estimated $143 dollars per day.