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Advocates urge raising incarcerated indigent threshold from $25 to $100
Summary
Supporters told the Senate Human Services Committee raising the indigent threshold to $100 would let incarcerated people afford hygiene and basic commissary items, reduce family burden, and prevent post-release debt; staff noted a DOC fiscal estimate of indeterminate costs above $50,000 and IT changes.
Committee staff briefed Substitute House Bill 2539 and explained current Department of Corrections rules that consider incarcerated people "indigent" if they have $25 or less in their institutional account; deductions for legal financial obligations, child support and commissary debts can leave people without funds for essentials.
Will Tronson told the committee the bill would change the indigent definition to under $100 and noted a fiscal estimate from DOC of indeterminate costs, "assumed to be greater than $50,000" for the year because…
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