State v. Towle

This action involves monetary charges made against the defendant under a work-release program. Included in the charges was a sum amounting to $5.53 per day for lodging. We modify the order of the District Court to dispense with this item.

Defendant had been sentenced on a burglary charge to serve 60 days in the county-city jail and was granted work release. The jail is the joint property of the county of Lancaster and the city of Lincoln but is operated by the city. The county has contracted to reimburse the city on a daily-rate basis for each prisoner *496in order to meet its share of the expense…