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What happens if you can't pay or refuse to pay? Do they put you back in prison?
The article covers this — they take money any opportunity they can. The person profiled in the article owes 1.5 million after 17 years, so will never be able to accumulate any sort of wealth.
And is it politically incorrect to say that this is essentially a form of slavery?
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Your bank app doesn't have shortcuts to pay fines and taxes?
Is that a thing… anywhere?
Not taxes though. My tax is automatically deducted from my salary and paid by my employer every month. All employers do this.
Years ago, I got a speeding ticket. I worked nights at the time, and the office to make the payment at had very strange hours because it was from a tiny town. My schedule made it difficult to make it over to the office during open hours, and one of the times I tried it was closed randomly over lunch because again, small town. (I learned later there was only one person who ran the whole office.) A day after my speedin…
Suspended license driving is anti-social. Any law with a firm cutoff or deadline, and no gradual increase of penalty, sucks for those who barely miss complying with it. There needs to be some kind of consequence, though.
Years ago, I got a speeding ticket. I worked nights at the time, and the office to make the payment at had very strange hours because it was from a tiny town. My schedule made it difficult to make it over to the office during open hours, and one of the times I tried it was closed randomly over lunch because again, small town. (I learned later there was only one person who ran the whole office.) A day after my speedin…
You cannot pay your tickets by wiring the money?
What drives me absolutely insane about stories like this is that so many of the people suffering under these policies are guilty of little more than market participation. The government strains, at extraordinary expense, to pretend they can stop drugs from being made, bought and sold, but they can't. They simply can't. Countless laws, countless billions of dollars and countless ruined lives later, drugs are no less p…
What drives me absolutely insane about stories like this is that so many of the people suffering under these policies are guilty of little more than market participation. The government strains, at extraordinary expense, to pretend they can stop drugs from being made, bought and sold, but they can't. They simply can't. Countless laws, countless billions of dollars and countless ruined lives later, drugs are no less p…
There are over 2 MILLION prisoners in the US prison population of a population of 330M. This gives the USA the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. The next four? * Rwanda * Turkmenistan * El Salvador * Cuba [1]: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/incarcera...
Just note that this story is about Jails, not Prison. They are different.
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That and, you know, profit.
There isn’t enough profit there though for that to be the driving force. Prisons as an industry make far less than industries with little to no political sway for even trivial protectionist policies.
What drives me absolutely insane about stories like this is that so many of the people suffering under these policies are guilty of little more than market participation. The government strains, at extraordinary expense, to pretend they can stop drugs from being made, bought and sold, but they can't. They simply can't. Countless laws, countless billions of dollars and countless ruined lives later, drugs are no less p…
There are over 2 MILLION prisoners in the US prison population of a population of 330M. This gives the USA the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. The next four? * Rwanda * Turkmenistan * El Salvador * Cuba [1]: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/incarcera...
Rough numbers reported a lot are 1mm uighurs, 1.6mm ukrainians through Russian 'filtration' camps (though most aren't held long term).
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It’s insane. Prison conditions in the US are infamous for the degrading of the human experience to a point of no return. Open rape culture, radicalization, utterly despicable behavior that even barbarians would shiver at openly covered in popular culture as fact. As someone who grew up outside the US, it is truly astonishing how fucked up the system is.
That’s pretty normal for prison culture worldwide. US prisons are far less inhumane than, say, France.
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Correct. It's a statistic many people are not aware of. Additionally, if you look at the racial breakdown of who's incarcerated in the USA, it's disproportionately black relative to number of blacks per capita residing in the country. Blacks are incarcerated at 5x the rate of whites, and make up 40% of all incarcerated individuals. This is insane.
Do blacks commit more crime, or are they only more likely to be incarcerated as a result?
Example from yesterday, a black pastor was arrested for watering his neighbors plants because he "looked suspicious":
https://news.yahoo.com/black-alabama-pastor-says-wrongfully-...