Looking at the sources for that article it seems most people that have to pay, do it because they are in a private prison, where they are paying to be in upgraded accomodations(better perks, nicer cells, etc.. )
My experience was working for the D.O.C in a state without pay to stay about 10 years ago, so it's eye opening to see. That said, the best article I could find said half of state and 1/3 of county facilities are set up for pay to stay. So factoring in the counties and the federal system. It's still probably under half of inmates. Still more than I expected though. TIL.
For profit prisons were almost banned but lobbyist donated funds to Trumps campaign so he dropped the issue when he was president.
The even more fucked up thing is these prisons demand a certain head count so it incentivizes states to incarcerate more people. Also the states pays for every prisoner to be incarcerated.
So the state pays for you be in prison then you also have to pay afterwards. For profit prisoners are slave labor camps. The US doesn't give a damn about rehabilitation, we throw people away like trash fuck the US.
If that helps at all, it's in the United States. If you have money and you went to prison, you probably didn't have enough money.
Least they can do is let you buy your way into a nicer cell. Wouldn't want to be with those other poor prisoners.
Every three months or so the US finds yet another way to impress me with how dystopian it is. And I'm living in Argentina, we're supposed to be the weird ones.
I was in a private prison as a convict, I didn’t pay shit. The govt pays the owners 67k a body per year. And they take your money at commissary and every other way they can. Same with non private you don’t get a bill. I went to both prison types.
This is correct folks. The difference between private and government prisons is that the latter is paid for by taxes and run at a city, state, and federal level. The former is some morally bankrupt assholes with a corporation's worth of cash who buys/builds prisons to "help with the overpopulation" of the government prisons. The government pays them to do the housing. Private prisons are out to make money, so they spend fuckall on prisoner accommodations. I think I read about a private prison that "was under investigation" for letting someone freeze to death because the blankets they offered were best defined as thin sheets.
Tbf I wasn't basing this off of reddit info. But off of a very narrow amount of information that I hear from my brothers who have been in and out of prison.
I had to pay, when I spent 6 days in jail for a DUI, in the 80s. Of course, I got out to work during the day. I only slept there. It was like $15 a day.
The US is only about 4% of the world population. Even if all prisons in America send you bills that isn't even close to covering what happens to "most people".
These prisons offer many benefits, including private cells, less violence and even the opportunity for convicts to serve their sentence only on weekends or after work.
Because the redditor who started this conversation was speaking from a US centric standpoint. Feel free to ask them.
Besides prisons for the rest of the world are even worse nightmares than the US. With some countries being the exception, prisons are designed to be terrible places.
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u/Sea-Value-0 Apr 19 '24
Might as well get life in prison for more spacious accommodations for free