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	State	Statute	Description/Statute Name	Statutory language	Type of poverty penalty or poverty trap	Level of offense	Mandatory
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Maine	Me. Rev. Stat. tit 17-A § 1807(8)	Conditions of probation	8. Condition of probation that includes staying within jurisdiction of court; application fee; use of fees. Whenever the court requires as a condition of probation that the person remain within the + See more jurisdiction of the court, unless permission to leave temporarily is granted in writing by the person's probation officer, the Department of Corrections may impose on a person applying for such permission an application fee of $25. The department may impose on a person an additional fee of $25 per month if permission is sought and granted to leave the jurisdiction of the court on a periodic basis. Permission to leave may not be denied or withdrawn solely because the person is not able to pay the application fee or the additional fee. When a person fails to pay a fee imposed under this subsection, the department may refuse to process the application or may withdraw permission to leave if the failure to pay is attributable to the person's willful refusal to pay or to a failure on the person's part to make a good faith effort to obtain the funds required for the payment.	Condition or extension of supervision	Felony	No
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Maine	Me. Rev. Stat. tit 4 § 7	General jurisdiction; control of records	The Supreme Judicial Court may exercise its jurisdiction according to the common law not inconsistent with the Constitution or any statute, and may punish contempts against its authority by fine + See more and imprisonment, or either, and administer oaths.	Incarceration	All	No
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Maine	Me. Rev. Stat. tit 4 § 7	General jurisdiction; control of records	The Supreme Judicial Court may exercise its jurisdiction according to the common law not inconsistent with the Constitution or any statute, and may punish contempts against its authority by fine + See more and imprisonment, or either, and administer oaths.	Increased fine	All	No
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Maine	Me. Rev. Stat. tit 17-A § 1854(2)(A)	Requirements of administrative release	2. Discretionary requirements. In addition to the requirements in subsection 1, the court in its sentence may require the person: A. To pay to the appropriate county an administrative supervision fee of not + See more more than $50 per month, as determined by the court, for the term of the administrative release. In determining the amount of the fee, the court shall take into account the financial resources of the person and the nature of the burden its payment imposes. When a person fails to pay the administrative supervision fee, the court may revoke administrative release as provided in sections 1855 and 1856 unless the person shows that failure to pay was not attributable to a willful refusal to pay or to a failure on that person's part to make a good faith effort to obtain the funds required for the payment.	Incarceration	All	No
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Maine	Me. Rev. Stat. tit 17-A § 1753	Electronic monitoring fee and substance testing fee as conditions of probation	If a court imposes a sentencing alternative authorized under section 1502 that includes a period of probation, upon the request of the Department of Corrections, the court shall attach as + See more a condition of probation an electronic monitoring fee, a substance testing fee or both, as governed by section 1807, subsection 7.	Condition or extension of supervision	All	No
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Maine	Me. Rev. Stat. tit 17-A § 1752	Supervision fee as condition of probation	If a court imposes a sentencing alternative authorized under section 1502 that includes a period of probation, it must attach as a condition of probation that the convicted individual pay, + See more through the Department of Corrections, a supervision fee imposed pursuant to section 1807, subsection 6 for the term of probation.	Condition or extension of supervision	All	No
Add to Dashboard + Create New	New Mexico	N.M. Stat. Ann. § 31-12-3(A),(C)	Paying fines, fees or costs in installments; community service option	A. Any person sentenced to pay a fine or to pay fees and costs in any criminal proceeding against him, either in addition to or without a term of imprisonment, + See more may in the discretion of the court be allowed to pay such fine, fees or costs in installments of such amounts, at such times and upon such conditions as the court may fix. The defendant may also be required to serve a period of time in labor to be known as “community service” in lieu of all or part of the fine. If unable to pay the fees or costs, he may be granted permission to perform community service in lieu of them as well. The labor shall be meaningful, shall not be suspended or deferred and shall be of a type that benefits the public at large or any public, charitable or educational entity or institution and is consistent with Article 9, Section 14 of the constitution of New Mexico. Any person performing community service pursuant to court order shall be immune from civil liability arising out of the community service other than for gross negligence, shall not be entitled to wages or considered an employee for any purpose and shall not be entitled to workers’ compensation, unemployment or any other benefits otherwise provided by law. Instead, a person who performs community service shall receive credit toward the fine, fees or costs at the rate of the prevailing federal hourly minimum wage. Unless otherwise provided, however, the total fine, fees and costs shall be payable forthwith. C. When a defendant sentenced to pay a fine in installments or ordered to pay fees or costs defaults in payment, the court, upon motion of the prosecutor or upon its own motion, may require the defendant to show cause why his default should not be treated as contumacious and may issue a summons or a warrant of arrest for his appearance. It shall be a defense that the defendant did not willfully refuse to obey the order of the court or that he made a good faith effort to obtain the funds required for the payment. If the defendant’s default was contumacious, the court may order him committed until the fine or a specified part of it or the fees or costs are paid. The maximum term of imprisonment for such contumacious nonpayment shall be specified in the order of commitment.	Community service, Incarceration, Payment plan/installment plan	All	No
Add to Dashboard + Create New	New Mexico	N.M. Stat. Ann. § 67-7-11	Obstructions and Injuries to Highways: Arrest for violation; seizure of vehicle; fee	Sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, constables, marshals, police officers and all peace officers shall have power to arrest any person violating any provision of this act on view or upon warrant issued + See more by any justice of the peace [magistrate court] or magistrate. Such officers are also authorized and directed to take into custody any vehicle involved in the violation of any provision of this act and hold the same until all fees, fines, costs and damages therefor shall be paid; provided that the owner or person in control of such vehicle may secure its release by furnishing a good and sufficient bond as required by the officer or magistrate before whom the case is prosecuted. The fee for making the arrest of any person violating any provision of this act shall upon conviction of the person or persons arrested be assessed as part of the costs and paid to the officer making such arrest, but shall not exceed one ($1.00) dollar in any case.	Incarceration	All	No
Add to Dashboard + Create New	New Mexico	N.M. Stat. Ann. § 31-12-3(B)	Paying fines, fees or costs in installments; community service option	The court may at any time revise, modify, reduce or enlarge the amount of the installment or the time and conditions fixed for payment of it.	Payment plan/installment plan	All	No
Add to Dashboard + Create New	New Mexico	N.M. Stat. Ann. § 31-20-5.1	Misdemeanor compliance programs; counties may establish; fees	As a condition of probation, the district or magistrate court may require the defendant to pay a fee of not less than fifteen dollars ($15.00) nor more than fifty dollars + See more ($50.00) per month to the county for a public probation program for the term of the defendant's probation. Money collected by the county pursuant to this subsection shall be used only to operate the misdemeanor compliance program.	Condition or extension of supervision	All	No
Add to Dashboard + Create New	New Mexico	N.M. Stat. Ann. § 31-21-10(G)(1)	Parole authority and procedure	G. Pursuant to the provisions of Section 31-18-15 NMSA 1978, the board shall require the inmate as a condition of parole: (1) to pay the actual costs of parole services + See more to the adult probation and parole division of the corrections department for deposit to the corrections department intensive supervision fund not exceeding one thousand eight hundred dollars ($1,800) annually to be paid in monthly installments of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) and not more than one hundred fifty dollars ($150), as set by the appropriate district supervisor of the adult probation and parole division, based upon the financial circumstances of the defendant. The defendant's payment of the supervised parole costs shall not be waived unless the board holds an evidentiary hearing and finds that the defendant is unable to pay the costs. If the board waives the defendant's payment of the supervised parole costs and the defendant's financial circumstances subsequently change so that the defendant is able to pay the costs, the appropriate district supervisor of the adult probation and parole division shall advise the board and the board shall hold an evidentiary hearing to determine whether the waiver should be rescinded; and	Condition or extension of supervision	All	No
Add to Dashboard + Create New	New Mexico	N.M. Stat. Ann. § 33-2-40	Imprisonment for nonpayment of fine or costs attached to prison sentence; maximum	All convicts sentenced to the state penitentiary who have a fine or costs or both attached to such sentence shall not be required to serve more than thirty days for + See more such fine or costs.	Incarceration	All	No
Add to Dashboard + Create New	New Mexico	N.M. Stat. Ann. § 33-3-11	Jail for nonpayment of fine	A. Whenever any person is committed to jail for nonpayment of any fine or costs or both, he shall be credited with eight times the federal hourly minimum wage a + See more day in reduction thereof for each day or portion of a day of incarceration. When the person has remained incarcerated a sufficient length of time to extinguish the fine or cost or both, computed at this rate, or has paid to the sentencing court the amount of the fine or costs or both, remaining after deducting credit allowed by this section and obtaining from the court an order of release from commitment, the officer having the prisoner in custody shall discharge him from custody under commitment. B. If the person in custody makes an affidavit that he has no property out of which he can pay the fine and costs, either or any part, the prisoner shall not be retained in custody longer than sixty days even though the fine and costs or either exceeds the amount credited toward repayment during those sixty days. The affidavit shall be delivered to the sheriff or jail administrator as defined in Section 4-44-19 NMSA 1978 having custody of the prisoner.	Incarceration	All	No

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