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IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Federal judges across the
country increasingly are ordering criminals not only to
pay the time for their crime but to pay the cost of their
prison stay.
From Jan. 19, 1989, through the end of October,
federal judges ordered 254 defendants to pay a
monthly fee during their prison sentence, according to
the U.S. Sentencing Commission in Washington, D.C.
“We see this as merely an equitable and common
sense thing to do,” said Judge William Wilkins Jr. of the
4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va.,
chairman of the seven-member commission.
“If you have the wherewithal to reimburse taxpayers
for the cost of your imprisonment, which you caused
through the commission of a criminal act, then you
ought to have to pay,” Wilkins said.
Some civil libertarians, however, are objecting. They
say the inmates aren’t getting their money’s worth be
cause of overcrowded prison conditions.
The commission, created in October 1985 after pub
lic outcry over sentencing discrepancies, instituted
mandatory sentencing guidelines to be applied uni
formly in federal courts.
But judges must use discretion in deciding which
convicts will pay for their prison stay. Only those who
can afford the monthly payment of $1,210.05, plus
$91.66 a month during probation, can be ordered to
pay.
Those fees, calculated by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons,
cannot be imposed if they would leave the defendant’s
family destitute or on welfare, said Paul Martin, a com
mission spokesman.
“It was kind of a very simple thought — select those
folks who I ave the ability to pay for their cost of incar
ceration or supervision,” Martin said. “It’s mainly ear
marked, of course, for the ‘white collar’ defendant,
someone who has some financial resource.”
Of the 45,000 cases that reach federal court every
year, few criminals appear to fit the bill.
“Most people who are put away in the federal court
system are indigent,” said Ron Wneeler, an attorney in
Des Moines. “They don’t have a dime. I’ve had clients
who didn’t have enough money to buy a six-pack of
beer.”
Last year, Wheeler represented a University of Iowa
student charged with possessing LSD with the intent to
sell. The student, Matthew Follett of Kenilworth, 111.,
pleaded guilty.
In August, U.S. District Judge Charles Wolle sen
tenced Follett to seven years in prison plus four years of
probation.
Noting that Follett had a substantial trust fund,
Wolle also fined Follett $20,000 and ordered him to pay
for his prison stay, plus the monthly fee during proba
tion.
“1 don’t have any problem with that at all,” Wheeler
said. “If they’re convicted and can pay the cost of being
kept in prison, I think they should.
“It looks nice on paper, but in actuality, there aren't a
lot of these kinds of defendants.”
One critic of the program is Alvin J. Bronstein, direc
tor of the National Prison Project of the American Civil
Liberties Union, who noted that the federal prison sys
tem is running at 170 percent of capacity “and getting
worse every month.”
“It is clear to me that federal prisons today are ba
sically unconstitutional because of the conditions of
overcrowding, inadequate medical care and all the
problems created by that mass of overcrowding,” he
said.
“It seems unseemly and highly inappropriate — if
not illegal — to be requiring defendants to pay for room
and board, or the cost of being incarcerated, in an un
constitutional facility,” Bronstein said.
Travel trend
influences
spa packages
Associated Press
A continuing trend toward the
shorter vacation, including weekend
breaks, continues to influence the
travel and resort business, according
to those in the industry.
One inn owner is offering spa
“breakations,” short one-to-five-day
vacation packages including special
fitness programs.
“We’ve witnessed a tremendous
change in recent years,” says Edward
Safdie, owner of the Norwich,
Conn., Inn and Spa. “Guests no
longer book one- or two-week stays
at the spa. Most of them just don’t
have the time.”
Safdie says the inn now offers
shorter-stay programs and, for
weekend travelers, inn accommoda
tions and use of the spa on an “a la
carte” basis.
Many hotels, in cities from New
York to Los Angeles, are offering
special package deals for weekend
guests.
Stouffer Hotels and Resorts, for
example, promotes one- or two-
night weekends at its properties in
Hawaii, the Virgin Islands, Califor
nia, Georgia, Florida and Arizona,
with longer weekend packages avail
able at its Stanford Court in San
Francisco and the Mayflower in
Washington, D.C.
Airlines give tourists
needed sleeping bags
SINGAPORE (AP) — The glut
of hotel rooms of a few years ago
that enabled picky tourists to
choose from an array of bargains
has ended. In fact, things are so
bad that two airlines plan to issue
sleeping bags to stranded passen
gers.
Room occupancy has been av
eraging more than 90 percent in
recent months. So Singapore In
ternational Airlines and the Aus
tralian carrier Qantas hope that
sleeping bags will make unex
pected layovers or flight delays at
Changi Airport more bearable
when no rooms are available.
Sleeping bags will be used only
as a last resort, according to an
SIA spokesman. But stranded
passengers zipped into sleeping
bags in designated areas “is cer
tainly far better than letting them
lie around the transit halls,” he
says.
This city-state of 2.6 million
people expects 5 million visitors
this year. It has 68 hotels and
24,142 rooms now, with 72 hotels
and 26,185 rooms expected to be
available by the end of 1992.
By then the Raffles Hotel, a
104-year-old landmark, is ex
pected to reopen after a $52-mil-
lion facelift.
Room rates, heavily discounted
as recently as two years ago, are
expected to increase as much as
40 percent in the next two years.
One stopgap under study is to
offer apartments in government
housing projects for visitors on a
bed-and-breakfast basis.
Singapore became a regional
tourist stopover mainly because
visitors could pick up some bar
gains on their way to the beaches
of Bali or the temples in Thai
land. But there are few bargains
these days. Only freespenders
from Japan and Taiwan might
find it relatively inexpensive, be
cause the local dollar has depre
ciated along with its U.S. coun
terpart.
With few natural and man
made attractions, the Tourist
Promotion Board plugged the is
land successfully in the 1970s as
“Instant Asia,” a clean and crime-
free metropolis where most peo
ple spoke English and the water
was safe to drink.
Spurred by the euphoria of
surging tourism in the mid and
late 1970s and optimistic fore
casts that the boom would con
tinue, developers built more ho
tels than tourists could fill. Some
8,000 rooms were added in 1982-
86, a 57 percent increase.
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