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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	Mississippi	Miss. Code Ann. § 99-19-20 (2)	Incarceration	The defendant may be imprisoned until the fine is paid if the defendant is financially able to pay a fine and the court so finds, subject to the limitations hereinafter + See more set out.	Incarceration	All	No
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Mississippi	Miss. Code Ann. § 63-1-53 (1)	Driver's license suspension	Upon failure of any person to respond timely and properly to a summons or citation charging such person with any violation of this title, or upon failure of any person + See more to pay timely any fine, fee or assessment levied as a result of any violation of this title, the clerk of the court shall give written notice to such person by United States first-class mail at his last known address advising such person that, if within ten (10) days after such notice is deposited in the mail, the person has not properly responded to the summons or citation or has not paid the entire amount of all fines, fees and assessments levied, then the court will give notice thereof to the Commissioner of Public Safety and the commissioner may suspend the driver's license of such person.	Driver's license suspension/impoundment	Traffic	No
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Mississippi	Miss. Code Ann. § 99-19-20 (1)	Fines; payment; indigent defendants; inability to work or unavailability of work	When any court sentences a defendant to pay a fine, the court may order (a) that the fine be paid immediately, or (b) that the fine be paid in installments + See more to the clerk of said court or to the judge, if there be no clerk, or (c) that payment of the fine be a condition of probation, or (d) that the defendant be required to work on public property for public benefit under the direction of the sheriff for a specific number of hours, or (e) any combination of the above.	Payment plan/installment plan	All	No
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Mississippi	Miss. Code Ann. § 99-19-20 (1)	Fines; payment; indigent defendants; inability to work or unavailability of work	When any court sentences a defendant to pay a fine, the court may order (a) that the fine be paid immediately, or (b) that the fine be paid in installments + See more to the clerk of said court or to the judge, if there be no clerk, or (c) that payment of the fine be a condition of probation, or (d) that the defendant be required to work on public property for public benefit under the direction of the sheriff for a specific number of hours, or (e) any combination of the above.	Work program/jail industry program	All	No
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Mississippi	Miss. Code Ann. § 99-37-5(1)	Payment and orders	When a defendant is sentenced to pay a fine or costs or ordered to make restitution, the court may order payment to be made forthwith or within a specified period + See more of time or in specified installments. If a defendant is sentenced to a term of imprisonment, an order of payment of a fine, costs or restitution shall not be enforceable during the period of imprisonment unless the court expressly finds that the defendant has assets to pay all or part of the amounts ordered at the time of sentencing.	Payment plan/installment plan	All	No
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Mississippi	Miss. Code Ann. § 99-37-5(2)	Payment and orders	(2) When a defendant sentenced to pay a fine or costs or ordered to make restitution is also placed on probation or imposition or execution of sentence is suspended, the + See more court may make payment of the fine or costs or the making of restitution a condition of probation or suspension of sentence. Such offenders shall make restitution payments directly to the victim. As an alternative to a contempt proceeding under Sections 99-37-7 through 99-37-13, the intentional refusal to obey the restitution order or a failure by a defendant to make a good faith effort to make such restitution may be considered a violation of the defendant's probation and may be cause for revocation of his probation or suspension of sentence.	Incarceration	All	No
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Mississippi	Miss. Code Ann. § 99-37-5(2)	Payment and orders	(2) When a defendant sentenced to pay a fine or costs or ordered to make restitution is also placed on probation or imposition or execution of sentence is suspended, the + See more court may make payment of the fine or costs or the making of restitution a condition of probation or suspension of sentence. Such offenders shall make restitution payments directly to the victim. As an alternative to a contempt proceeding under Sections 99-37-7 through 99-37-13, the intentional refusal to obey the restitution order or a failure by a defendant to make a good faith effort to make such restitution may be considered a violation of the defendant's probation and may be cause for revocation of his probation or suspension of sentence.	Condition or extension of supervision	All	No
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Mississippi	Miss. Code Ann. § 99-37-7(2)	Contempt for default	(2) Unless the defendant shows that his default was not attributable to an intentional refusal to obey the order of the court or to a failure on his part to + See more make a good faith effort to make the payment, the court may find that his default constitutes contempt and may order him committed until the fine or the restitution, or a specified part thereof, is paid.	Incarceration	All	No
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Mississippi	Miss. Code. Ann. § 63-1-51	Grounds for revocation or suspension	It shall be the duty of the court clerk, upon conviction of any person holding a license issued pursuant to this article where the penalty for a traffic violation is + See more as much as Ten Dollars ($10.00), to mail a copy of abstract of the court record or provide an electronically or computer generated copy of abstract of the court record immediately to the commissioner at Jackson, Mississippi, showing the date of conviction, penalty, etc., so that a record of same may be made by the Department of Public Safety. The commissioner shall forthwith revoke the license of any person for a period of one (1) year upon receiving a duly certified record of each person's convictions of any of the following offenses when such conviction has become final: . . . (f) Contempt for failure to pay a fine or fee or to respond to a summons or citation pursuant to a charge of a violation of this title.	Driver's license suspension/impoundment	All	Yes
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Mississippi	Miss. Code. Ann. § 47-1-3	Working out fine, costs, sentence	It is the imperative duty of the board of supervisors in each county in this state to require each convict sentenced to imprisonment in the county jail and the payment + See more of a fine and costs, or to imprisonment and payment of costs, or to payment of fine and costs, to work out the sentence on the county convict farm or on the public roads or other public works of the county, or in a contiguous county, as herein provided. But any convict who is sentenced to the payment of a fine and costs and who pays such fine and costs shall thereby be relieved from working out such fine and costs, but the payment in full of such fine and costs shall not relieve such convict from working out the full time of his imprisonment as adjudged in his sentence.	Work program/jail industry program	All	Yes
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Mississippi	Miss. Code Ann. §97-33-1	Miss. Code Ann. §97-33-1	shall be fined in a sum not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($ 500.00); and, unless such fine and costs be immediately paid, shall be imprisoned for any period not + See more more than ninety (90) days	Incarceration	Misdemeanor	Yes
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Mississippi	Miss. Code Ann. §97-33-11	Miss. Code Ann. §97-33-11	shall be fined in a sum not more than five hundred dollars; and unless such fine and costs be immediately paid, shall be imprisoned in the county jail for not + See more less than five nor more than twenty days	Incarceration	Misdemeanor	Yes
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Mississippi	Miss. Code Ann. §97-35-41	Miss. Code Ann. §97-35-41	in addition to being committed to jail is herein provided, such person shall also pay all costs, and shall stand committed until same is paid	Incarceration	Misdemeanor	Yes
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Mississippi	Miss. Code Ann. §47-7-49 (2)	Miss. Code Ann. §47-7-49 (2)	The offender may be imprisoned until the payments are made if the offender is financially able to make the payments and the court in the county where the offender resides + See more so finds	Incarceration	Misdemeanor	No
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Rhode Island	R.I. Gen. Laws. Ann. § 12-19-31	Commitment for nonpayment of fines and costs	Whenever any person shall be committed for nonpayment of fines and costs, the sheriffs of the several counties and their deputies, and the town sergeants and town constables of any + See more town in the several counties, upon due warrant from the court before whom the person has been convicted, may lawfully remove and commit the persons to the adult correctional institutions and they shall be allowed any fees that are now provided by law in similar cases; provided, that in the counties of Newport and Washington, any person before removal from the county of Newport or the county of Washington, in which sentence is entered, may pay the fine and costs into the court or into the office of the clerk of the court in which sentence is imposed and upon payment shall be discharged.	Incarceration	All	No
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Rhode Island	R.I. Gen. Laws. Ann. § 12-21-9	Commitment for failure to obey judgment or sentence	If any person against whom sentence is passed or judgment rendered, under any penal statute, shall refuse or neglect to perform the sentence or to pay the judgment, he or + See more she shall, by order of the court passing the sentence or by the officer charged with the execution issued on the judgment, be committed to the adult correctional institutions, and be imprisoned there until the sentence is performed or he or she is discharged by due course of law.	Incarceration	All	No
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Rhode Island	R.I. Gen. Laws. Ann. § 12-21-1(1)	Methods of recovering fines and forfeitures	Unless otherwise specially provided: (1) All fines of five hundred dollars ($ 500) and under shall be recovered by complaint and summons; (2) All fines of upwards of five hundred dollars ($ 500), by + See more indictment or information; (3) All penalties and pecuniary forfeitures, by action of debt; and (4) All forfeitures of personal property, by complaint and warrant or by information.	Civil judgment, Other	All	Yes
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Rhode Island	R.I. Gen. Laws. Ann. § 12-21-33	Suspension of operators' license for failure to pay costs, fines, fees, or assessments	A judge of the superior or district court or the traffic tribunal may order the suspension of a person's license issued pursuant to chapter 10 of title 31 if the + See more person fails to pay court ordered costs, fines, fees, restitution or assessments within the time period provided for in an order of the court. The judge may order the suspension to be effective until the person complies with the court order.	Driver's license suspension/impoundment	All	Yes
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Rhode Island	R.I. Gen. Laws. Ann. § 12-25-26	Recovery of victim compensation from offender	Whenever any person is convicted of an offense and compensation is awarded under this chapter or under the 1972 Act for a personal injury or death resulting from the act + See more constituting the offense, the state of Rhode Island shall institute an action against that person for the recovery of the whole or any specified part of the compensation in the superior court of the state of Rhode Island in any county, or in the state or federal court of any other state or district in which that person resides or is found, or make a finding in writing, of the reasons why it is impractical or impossible to institute that action. The office shall pursue the recovery whenever possible in order to provide additional funds for the violent crimes indemnity account. The administrator shall develop rules and regulations pursuant to the Administrative Procedures Act, chapter 35 of title 42, to identify those so convicted, determine their ability to compensate the fund, and file whatever action is appropriate to recoup those funds.	Civil judgment, Other	All	Yes
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Rhode Island	R.I. Gen. Laws. Ann. § 12-19-8.1	Conditions of probation	(a) The following shall constitute basic conditions of probation applicable to all defendants upon whom a period of probation has been imposed: (8) Pay restitution, court costs, and fines, if + See more assessed, in one or several sums, based on the defendant's ability to pay; and	Condition or extension of supervision	All	No

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