At $249 per day, prison stays leave ex-inmates deep in debt
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#2Am I the only one that was unaware that charging inmates for jail was a thing?
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#3Am I the only one that was unaware that charging inmates for jail was a thing?
No, and this sounds like it gives states all the wrong incentives.
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#5Wow, that's exactly what USSR under Stalin would do. Except that they would jusr charge you for yearly robes and not for the daily pleasure to stay under gulag.
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#6>All but two states have so-called “pay-to-stay” laws that make prisoners pay for their time behind bars
What? Had no idea about this whatsoever and I consider myself a well-read person. Damn.
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#7Every day I find new reason to believe the American penal system unconscionable.
Not only is slavery permitted, the US is the subject of the ire of the United Nations over it (the ILO, specifically). For-profit prisons with state minimum occupancy clauses. Charging prisoners for their time there. And one of the highest incarceration levels and worst recidivism rates in the world.
What exactly is the point of any of this?
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#9Am I the only one that was unaware that charging inmates for jail was a thing?
Being charged for going to prison might be the most American thing I’ve ever heard
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#10Every day I find new reason to believe the American penal system unconscionable. Not only is slavery permitted, the US is the subject of the ire of the United Nations over it (the ILO, specifically). For-profit prisons with state minimum occupancy clauses. Charging prisoners for their time there. And one of the highest incarceration levels and worst recidivism rates in the world. What exactly is the point of any of t…
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