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Illinois inmates increasingly sued by state to recoup incarceration costs
- joshmn 11y agoIn a former life, I was a member of this system. And this system is so fucking broken. Let's make people broke using tax-payer funds, and put them in a position where they are likely to fail, instead of succeed. Reminds me of being jailed for being broke. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/jailed-for-being-broke-20150623 http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/jailed-for-being-b...
- venomsnake 11y ago“There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do.” ― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods That quote summarizes perfectly my attitude towards the article. We create a system that incentives people to be inhuman.