Pay-to-stay (imprisonment) - Wikipedia
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Very weird that I am so old and have literally never heard this mentioned in a TV show or book or movie or anything.

In four out of five states, if you go to prison, you are literally paying for the time you spend there.

As you can guess, this results in crippling debt as soon as you’re released.

The county gets back a fraction of what they hold over your head the rest of your life until you commit suicide(or die naturally and peacefully with the sword of damocles hanging over your head).

$20-$80 a day according to Rutgers.

Counties apparently sue people and employ wage garnishment to get back the money that majority of people obviously cannot pay back.

https://www.rutgers.edu/news/states-unfairly-burdening-incarcerated-people-pay-stay-fees

  • goldenlocks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    6 months ago

    The rich have you figured out and are playing you like a fiddle.

    What do you not understand here?

    Voting isn’t magic, stop treating it like so.

    It’s incredibly simple. You do not understand even the basic definition of democracy.

    It objectively is:

    Not if you vote for them and gather support instead of whining like a baby.

    No they cannot. The spoiler effect is an inherent problem to our electoral system. You cannot just magic away systemic problems.

    Then change it, get over yourself. I am helping fix this problem by voting against it, you are not, very simple.