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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

  • fukurthumz420@lemmy.worldEnglish
    198·
    6 months ago

    sure. hold humanity hostage because you can’t get exactly what you want, traitor. i’m not going to kiss your ass to vote for practical results. if you’re too blind to see what you’re doing, you can live with the consequences. i have a feeling you have a lot more time left on this planet than i do, junior.

    • Tattorack@lemmy.worldEnglish
      56·
      6 months ago

      Jesus Christ, you’re calling another person a traitor over… this. XD

      You Americans are like a bad parody. What a terrible farce this is.

      • MalachaiConstant@lemmy.worldEnglish
        44·
        6 months ago

        In a two party system, voting third party will only ever result in your vote being thrown out. It is taking a stand against reality for the sake of your own personal idealism.

        A lot of left-aligned voters learned that lesson the hard way in 2016. If you didn’t learn the lesson, you either weren’t paying attention or your idealism is more important to you than the actual outcome of the vote.

        Doing that willingly, despite (or maybe because) the rest of your side screaming at you not to fuck this up again, is absolutely a level of betrayal.

        • Tattorack@lemmy.worldEnglish
          53·
          6 months ago

          Yeah, this whole explanation is just you saying “Our country is broken and I don’t want to fix it”.

        • KrapKake@lemmy.worldEnglish
          43·
          6 months ago

          Yea OK, just keep voting for same parties over and over again. Let’s just maintain the shitty status quo where nothing really gets better regardless of who is in office!

          • MalachaiConstant@lemmy.worldEnglish
            32·
            6 months ago

            So your solution is to vote in protest for a party you know won’t win.

            I’m actually curious now, what possible good do you think that’s doing?