Pay To Stay” Prison Program A Miserable Failure

In the counties of Butler and Hamilton, Ohio, the sheriff’s departments attempted to collect money from inmates to pay for the cost of their stay at jail. A miserable failure, the program was halted a few weeks ago after it cost taxpayers $69,000 to settle a federal lawsuit. The state auditor put an end to the program because it wasn’t generating any revenue.

So Called Debt Collector Scams Seventeen Victims

A bill collector in Williamsville recently pleaded guilty to fooling a local bank in a fraud that caused his nearly two dozen victims to lose $440,000. Noah Schapiro, the man who ran the fraud was informed by the State Supreme Court that he will most likely face a prison term of six to twelve years and will that he will be forced to sign confessions of judgment for his whole scam to seventeen debt investors and the Citizens Bank.