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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 York	N.Y. Crim. Proc. Law § 420.10(1)(c)	Payment as condition of probation	Where the defendant is sentenced to a period of probation as well as a fine, restitution or reparation and such designated surcharge, the court may direct the payment of the + See more fine, restitution or reparation and such designated surcharge be a condition of the sentence	Condition or extension of supervision	All	No
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Missouri	Mo. Ann. Stat. § 559.016(3)	Terms of probation - extension	The court may extend a period of probation, however, no more than one extension of any probation may be ordered except that the court may extend the total time on + See more probation by one additional year by order of the court if the defendant admits he or she has violated the conditions of his or her probation or is found by the court to have violated the conditions of his or her probation.	Condition or extension of supervision	All	No
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Missouri	Mo. Ann. Stat. § 559.021(2)(1)	Conditions of probation--compensation of victims--free work, public or charitable--defendant not an employee for workers’ compensation purposes--payment to county restitution fund, when	In addition to such other authority as exists to order conditions of probation, the court may order such conditions as the court believes will serve to compensate the victim, any + See more dependent of the victim, any statutorily created fund for costs incurred as a result of the offender's actions, or society. Such conditions may include restorative justice methods pursuant to section 217.777, or any other method that the court finds just or appropriate including, but not limited to: (1) Restitution to the victim or any dependent of the victim, or statutorily created fund for costs incurred as a result of the offender's actions in an amount to be determined by the judge.	Condition or extension of supervision	All	No
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Missouri	Mo. Ann. Stat. § 600.093	Probation, payment for services may be condition	The court may require a defendant to repay all or a part of the value of the legal services rendered by the state public defender system as a condition of + See more probation.	Condition or extension of supervision	All	No
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Missouri	Mo. Ann. Stat. § 559.105	Restitution may be ordered for tampering and stealing offenses--limitation on release from probation--payment	1. Any person who has been found guilty of or has pled guilty to an offense may be ordered by the court to make restitution to the victim for the + See more victim's losses due to such offense. Restitution pursuant to this section shall include, but not be limited to a victim's reasonable expenses to participate in the prosecution of the crime. 2. No person ordered by the court to pay restitution pursuant to this section shall be released from probation until such restitution is complete. If full restitution is not made within the original term of probation, the court shall order the maximum term of probation allowed for such offense. 3. Any person eligible to be released on parole shall be required, as a condition of parole, to make restitution pursuant to this section. The board of probation and parole shall not release any person from any term of parole for such offense until the person has completed such restitution, or until the maximum term of parole for such offense has been served. 4. The court may set an amount of restitution to be paid by the defendant. Said amount may be taken from the inmate's account at the department of corrections while the defendant is incarcerated. Upon conditional release or parole, if any amount of such court-ordered restitution is unpaid, the payment of the unpaid balance may be collected as a condition of conditional release or parole by the prosecuting attorney or circuit attorney under section 559.100. The prosecuting attorney or circuit attorney may refer any failure to make such restitution as a condition of conditional release or parole to the parole board for enforcement.	Condition or extension of supervision	All	No
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Missouri	Mo. Rev. Stat. § 600.089	Parolees to pay for representation, when	If the public defender commission has obtained a judgment against an offender in the custody of the department of corrections, and the offender is later paroled and becomes financially able + See more to pay all or some part of such judgment, he shall be required, as a condition of his continued parole, to pay over to the public defender commission such amounts as he can reasonably pay, either by a single payment or by installments of reasonable amounts, in accordance with the schedule of charges for public defender services prepared pursuant to section 600.090.	Condition or extension of supervision	All	No
Add to Dashboard + Create New	New Mexico	N.M. Stat. Ann. § § 31-18-15(C)	Sentencing authority; noncapital felonies; basic sentences and fines; parole authority; meritorious deductions	A period of parole shall be imposed only for felony convictions wherein a person is sentenced to imprisonment of more than one year, unless the parties to a proceeding agree + See more that a period of parole should be imposed. If a period of parole is imposed, the court shall include in the judgment and sentence of each person convicted and sentenced to imprisonment in a corrections facility designated by the corrections department authority for a period of parole to be served in accordance with the provisions of Section 31-21-10 NMSA 1978 after the completion of any actual time of imprisonment and authority to require, as a condition of parole, the payment of the costs of parole services and reimbursement to a law enforcement agency or local crime stopper program in accordance with the provisions of that section.	Condition or extension of supervision	All	No
Add to Dashboard + Create New	New Mexico	N.M. Stat. Ann. § 31-17-1(B),(H)	Victim restituion	B. If the trial court exercises either of the sentencing options under Section 31-20-6 NMSA 1978, the court shall require as a condition of probation or parole that the defendant, + See more in cooperation with the probation or parole officer assigned to the defendant, promptly prepare a plan of restitution, including a specific amount of restitution to each victim and a schedule of restitution payments. H. Failure of the defendant to comply with Subsection B of this section or to comply with the plan of restitution as approved or modified by the court may constitute a violation of the conditions of probation or parole. Without limitation, the court may modify the plan of restitution or extend the period of time for restitution, but not beyond the maximum probation or parole period specified in Section 31-21-10 NMSA 1978.	Condition or extension of supervision, Incarceration	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

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