This KY man was wrongly jailed for 14 months. Then they billed him for his stay.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

A Winchester factory worker spent 14 months locked in jail on child porn charges before prosecutors agreed to drop the case because repeated searches of his apartment and digital devices failed to turn up evidence against him.

But as David Allen Jones finally walked free, his life in ruins, the Clark County Detention Center handed him a bill for $4,008. Citing a 2000 state law, the jail demanded that Jones help pay for the cost of his incarceration.

On Wednesday, the Kentucky Supreme Court will be asked to decide if that’s constitutional. Jones is suing Clark County and its jailer, Frank Doyle, to ask that his bill be dismissed.

Jones’ lawyers call the jail’s actions “an affront to the bedrock American principle that a citizen is presumed innocent until proven guilty.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ky-man-wrongly-jailed-14-182854395.html

[soothsayer]

1. SMDH

[LisaL]

2. Talk about adding insult to injury.

NT

[yagotme]

3. Bill be dismissed?

I'd be suing to own the whole county.

[70sEraVet]

4. I'm sure he can't pay the bill, because......

No doubt he LOST his factory job when they put him in jail for 14 months on a child-porn charge!

[LisaL]

5. He sure did.

Lost his job, his apartment, etc, per the article.

[FakeNoose]

6. I smell a citizen lawsuit coming on

Even a below-average Kentucky lawyer will know how to "make hay" with this one.

[struggle4progress]

7. KY Rev Stat 441.265

(1) A prisoner in a county jail shall be required by the sentencing court to reimburse the county for expenses incurred by reason of the prisoner's confinement as set out in this section, except for good cause shown ...

https://casetext.com/statute/kentucky-revised-statutes/title-40-crimes-and-punishments/chapter-441-jails-and-county-prisoners/county-jail-budget-and-funding/section-441265-required-reimbursement-by-prisoner-of-costs-of-confinement-local-policy-of-fee-and-expense-rates-billing-and-collection-methods

No evidence? Charges dropped? No trial? No conviction? No sentence? Then what-exactly-the-everlovin-fugg would that "sentencing court" be, which might have the power to order the prisoner to pay?

[MagickMuffin]

8. Here's David A Jones: And this law is BS, especially since David is innocent

No one should have to pay for their incarceration. Fascist gotta be fascists.