Pay-to-stay (imprisonment) - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org

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
    1•6 months ago

    They are openly debating if the president can have political opponents killed. Quit living under a rock.

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

    No shit.

    But I am not an imbecile who thinks they can magic away the spoiler effect. That’s you.

    The literal only way is voting, it’s so simple it’s hilarious.

    Voting third party is equal to choosing the second option.

    Nope.

    Get a grip. You’ve done no better to get RCV implemented. Your votes get you nothing, because you vote for candidates that mathematically cannot win thanks to the inherent biases of FPTP voting.

    LOL so people who had power and proved to you they will do nothing to get RCV passed. Greens can mathematically win, you just vote for them.

    And RCV isn’t even that good of an option. STAR and approval are superior.

    Yes the Dems will surely do this for you LOL

    ty to make a sensible sentence.

    • @Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1•6 months ago

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

      Have you passed the fifth grade? I honestly can’t tell given your inability to make a sensible sentence.

      The literal only way is voting, it’s so simple it’s hilarious.

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

      Nope.

      It objectively is:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoiler_effect

      Greens can mathematically win, you just vote for them.

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

      • @goldenlocks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1•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.