Cite as: 22 CNCA § 979

The sentencing Court may require a person sentenced to confinement in penal institution, for any offense, to pay the penal institution the costs of food and maintenance for each day of incarceration, both before and after conviction, medical care, dental care, and psychiatric services. The costs for food and maintenance for each day of incarceration shall be an amount equal to the actual cost of the services, said costs to be determined by the administrator of the penal institution. The cost of the services shall be paid to all penal institutions where the inmate may have been held before and after conviction. The costs shall not be assessed if, in the judgment of the Court, such costs would impose a manifest hardship on the inmate, or if in the opinion of the Court the property of the inmate is needed for the maintenance and support of family of the inmate.

Historical Data

LA 10–90, eff. November 13, 1990.