730 ILCS 5/5-7-6
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 730 - CORRECTIONS|730 ILCS 5/ - Unified Code of Corrections.|Chapter V - Sentencing

 (from Ch. 38, par. 1005-7-6)Sec. 5-7-6.     Duty of Clerk of Court or the Department of Corrections; collection and disposition of compensation.(a) Every gainfully employed offender shall be responsible for managing his  or her earnings.  The clerk of the circuit court shall have only those  responsibilities regarding an offender's earnings as are set forth in this  Section.Every offender, including offenders who are sentenced to periodic  imprisonment for weekends only, gainfully employed  shall pay a fee for room and board at a rate established, with the  concurrence of the chief judge of the judicial circuit, by the county board of  the county in which the offender is incarcerated.  The concurrence of the chief  judge shall be in the form of an administrative order.  In establishing the fee  for room and board consideration may be given to all costs incidental to the  incarceration of offenders. If an offender is necessarily absent from the  institution at mealtime he or she shall, without additional charge, be  furnished with a meal to carry to work.  Each week, on a day designated by the  clerk of the circuit court,  every offender shall pay the clerk the fees for the offender's room and board. Failure to pay the clerk  on the day designated shall result in the termination of the offender's  release.  All fees for room and board collected by the circuit court clerk shall be  disbursed into the county's General Corporate Fund.By order of the court, all or a portion of the earnings of  employed offenders shall be turned over to the clerk to be distributed  for the following purposes, in the order stated:(1) the room and board of the offender;(2) necessary travel expenses to and from work and     other incidental expenses of the offender, when those expenses are incurred by the administrator of the offender's imprisonment;(3) support of the offender's dependents, if any.(b) If the offender has one or more dependents who are recipients of  financial assistance pursuant to the Illinois Public Aid Code, or who are  residents of a State hospital, State school or foster care facility  provided by the State, the court shall order the offender to turn over  all or a portion of his earnings to the clerk who shall, after making  the deductions provided for under paragraph  (a), distribute those earnings to the appropriate agency  as reimbursement for the cost of care of such dependents. The order shall  permit the Department of Human Services (acting as successor to the Illinois  Department of Public Aid under the Department of Human Services Act) or the  local governmental  unit, as the case may be, to request the clerk that subsequent payments be  made directly to the dependents, or to some agency or person in their  behalf, upon removal of the dependents from the public aid rolls; and upon  such direction and removal of the recipients from the public aid rolls, the  Department of Human Services or the local governmental unit, as the  case requires, shall give written notice of such action to the court.  Payments  received by the Department of Human Services or by  governmental units in behalf of recipients of public aid shall be deposited  into the General Revenue Fund of the State Treasury or General Assistance  Fund of the governmental unit, under Section 10-19 of the Illinois Public  Aid Code.(c) The clerk of the circuit court shall keep individual accounts of all  money collected by him as required by this Article. He shall deposit all  moneys as trustee in a depository designated by the county board and shall  make payments required by the court's order from such trustee account. Such  accounts shall be subject to audit in the same manner as accounts of the  county are audited.(d) If an institution or the Department of Corrections certifies to the  court that it can administer this Section with respect to persons committed  to it under this Article, the clerk of the court shall be relieved of its  duties under this Section and they shall be assumed by such institution or  the Department.    (Source: P.A. 90-14, eff. 7-1-97; 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)