Disgraceful
- Thread starter Ponca Dan
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I agree that it's both ridiculous and disgraceful.
Did any of you ever bother to read the DOJ report on Ferguson, MO? The City had similar schemes in place for decades, which they used to as John Oliver called it "putting people in the f*** barrel." And unfortunately, this is rather commonplace all across the USA, often with some combination of private companies getting contracts with the cities to force people to pay 10 times as much as they should, paying off the city/county and keeping the rest.
But perhaps worse than that is the states like Alabama and Mississippi which deny accused bail, put the cost of bail so high few can afford it, and then use them as basically slave labor for months at a time, while they are in jail awaiting trial. Innocent or guilty, it doesn't matter the local govts are going to get work out of you. It's nothing short of a racket designed to basically turn poor people into poorer people by putting them in a system where they basically can't win and for that matter can't even get a fair shake.
This is one area where I will say that little of the way in actual "justice" exists within our "justice system." Think Brubaker writ large at hundreds and hundreds of counties across the country, where graft, corruption and free labor for local politicians is the norm, not the exception.
Did any of you ever bother to read the DOJ report on Ferguson, MO? The City had similar schemes in place for decades, which they used to as John Oliver called it "putting people in the f*** barrel." And unfortunately, this is rather commonplace all across the USA, often with some combination of private companies getting contracts with the cities to force people to pay 10 times as much as they should, paying off the city/county and keeping the rest.
But perhaps worse than that is the states like Alabama and Mississippi which deny accused bail, put the cost of bail so high few can afford it, and then use them as basically slave labor for months at a time, while they are in jail awaiting trial. Innocent or guilty, it doesn't matter the local govts are going to get work out of you. It's nothing short of a racket designed to basically turn poor people into poorer people by putting them in a system where they basically can't win and for that matter can't even get a fair shake.
This is one area where I will say that little of the way in actual "justice" exists within our "justice system." Think Brubaker writ large at hundreds and hundreds of counties across the country, where graft, corruption and free labor for local politicians is the norm, not the exception.
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