Pay-to-stay (imprisonment) - Wikipedia
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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/18677335

TIL 40 states in the US charge you $20-$80 a day for being incarcerated in prison.

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

  • Verdant Banana
    14•7 months ago

    why cannabis and now women’s rights are illegal as well as homelessness and immigration

    things living creatures do normally on the daily deemed illegal

    all for the corporate machine to be fed warm bodies

    struggling citizens with hardly any meat left being picked over on by the corpo vultures before death even occurs

    there is a story think by Liu Cixin that is about a futuristic dystopian earth that is owned by one last capitalist air and all and the police are hired to insure his property is not stolen or fucked with by the citizens that still live there

    all ends when he decides they are like roaches and generously builds everyone a spaceship economically of course with plenty of cryo beds so oxygen would not need to be sufficiently provided and has them rocketed out into space

  • @Got_Bent@lemmy.world
    8•7 months ago

    I posted about this in another thread yesterday and now I wonder if it influenced this post or if it’s just a crazy coincidence.

    No complaints either way on my end. Just one of those deja vu Internet moments.

  • @apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world
    4•7 months ago

    The Thirteenth amendment only outlawed certain forms of slavery.

    Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

    For clarity, slavery in all forms should be abolished, including forced debt slavery. Slavery as a practice still undergirds the US carceral system and is a main reason the US has such a large enslaved population today (inmates) and terrifying recidivism rates.

    Primarily prison should be about rehabilitation and reform, not retribution.