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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	New Hampshire	N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 618:7	Execution	A writ of execution may be issued for any fine in a criminal case, notwithstanding the respondent may be committed or detained in a county correctional facility for nonpayment thereof, + See more and if the fine is collected upon the execution, the convict shall not be further detained on account thereof.	Incarceration	All	No
Add to Dashboard + Create New	New Hampshire	N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 618:6	Place of Committal	Any person sentenced to pay a fine shall be ordered to be imprisoned until sentence is performed, or he or she is otherwise legally discharged, in the county correctional facility + See more in which the crime was committed. This section shall not be construed as authorizing the confinement of any juvenile under the age of 17 years in a county correctional facility for the nonpayment of a fine.	Incarceration	All	Yes
Add to Dashboard + Create New	New Hampshire	N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 651:22	Jurisdiction Over and Disposition of Wages and Income	In any criminal case, in addition to such other terms and conditions as may be imposed by the court, a defendant who has received a suspended sentence or who has + See more been released under RSA 651:19 may be required by the court to surrender to the department of corrections or other agency designated by the court all or part of his wages or other income, less standard payroll deduction required by law, earned during the time he is not confined under the sentence. The court may direct that, after deducting therefrom the cost of his maintenance while not confined, the balance be applied as needed for restitution payments made to authorized claimants pursuant to RSA 651:62 through 66 and for the support and maintenance of his dependents. Any balance after such applications shall be deposited in a savings account to be released to him or applied as needed for restitution payments or the support of his dependents as the court may order, or applied to the designated cost of room and board at the institution for the period of time during which the inmate is working before the expiration of his sentence. Upon expiration of his sentence the balance remaining shall be paid to him or his order.	Wage/bank account garnishment	All	No
Add to Dashboard + Create New	New Hampshire	N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 651:64(I),(III)	Time and Method of Restitution	I. The time and method of restitution payments or performance of restitution services shall be specified by the department of corrections. Monetary restitution may be by lump sum, or by + See more periodic installments in any amounts. III. The department may garnish the offender's wages for the purpose of ensuring payment of victim restitution.	Payment plan/installment plan, Wage/bank account garnishment	All	No
Add to Dashboard + Create New	New Hampshire	N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 651:67(I)	Failure to Make Restitution	Any offender who is sentenced to make restitution under RSA 651:63, and who purposely violates the court's order by either failing to make restitution or by defaulting in the payment + See more or performance of the restitution authorized, may be prosecuted for contempt.	Incarceration	All	No
Add to Dashboard + Create New	New Hampshire	N.H. Rev. Stat. § 604-A:9(III)	Adequate Representation for Indigent Defendants in Criminal Cases: Repayment	If any repayment ordered pursuant to paragraph I becomes overdue, the court having originally appointed counsel may order any employer of a former defendant to deduct from that person's wages + See more or salary the appropriate amount due and to pay such amount to the appropriate department as determined under paragraph I, which shall refund such amount to the state, provided that no money, rights, or credits listed in RSA 512:21 shall be subject to deduction.	Wage/bank account garnishment	All	No
Add to Dashboard + Create New	New Hampshire	N.H. Rev. Stat. § 618:9	Committal for Nonpayment; Term	Whenever a person is committed to a county correctional facility in default of payment of a fine imposed by a justice of a superior court or a district court, he + See more or she shall be discharged from custody by the superintendent thereof at the expiration of a number of days after the date of his or her commitment equal to one day for each $150 of the fine so imposed. The superintendent shall keep a record of all discharges made under the provisions of this section.	Incarceration	All	No
Add to Dashboard + Create New	New Hampshire	N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 618:8	At End of Term, or on Payment of Balance	Any person sentenced conditionally to pay a fine or to be imprisoned for a term shall be discharged at the expiration of the term, and may be discharged at any + See more time on payment of the balance of the fine, after deducting $150 for each day such person has been imprisoned under the sentence.	Incarceration	All	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

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