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Some states charge, for example prison health care, TDCJ/Texas will give you a bill upon release or skim your commissary account for payments. There's barely a
by hackermailman 8y ago
Some states charge, for example prison health care, TDCJ/Texas will give you a bill upon release or skim your commissary account for payments. There's barely a state budget for prisons and voters don't want to pay for it, meaning political suicide if you're giving tax dollars to convicts.
- SketchySeaBeast 8y ago> There's barely a state budget for prisons and voters don't want to pay for it But boy do they love watching people get locked up. What a bad approach for treating the ills of society. Let's lock people up at the drop of the hat, make it the most miserable thing possible, and then expect them to come out well adjusted and fully functional. People went to jail because they were neither of those things before hand. But I guess as long as the prison system gets to turn a couple of bucks it makes it all worth it, right?