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All but two states have so-called “pay-to-stay” laws that make prisoners pay for their time behind bars, though not every state pursues people for the money.
<p>Although it is often linked to the rise of Black Power movements in the late 1960s, evidence shows that state authorities were working to eliminate civil rights organizing among Black prisoners as early as the 1950s. </p>
The Connecticut attorney general can seize any settlement to pay for the cost of incarceration at a rate of $249 a day, the highest pay-to-stay rate in the