In the US, the police can just confiscate your money without arresting you and keep it. They then have a trial where they put the money on trial. Not a person.

In the US, the police can just confiscate your money without arresting you and keep it. They then have a trial where they put the money on trial. Not a person. The money itself is on trial. The absurdity is beyond comprehension. The injustice even worse. So of course they can charge you for staying in jail or prison, innocent or not. No one gives a fuck about justice here. Everyone is also used to getting fucked over and money stolen from them by unscrupulous companies. It's a universal experience to be overcharged, charged for shit you didn't buy, etc. and it's not always possible to fix it with chargebacks etc. So this is just an extension of the existing culture that doesn't value justice or doing the right thing and explicitly allows bad actors to fuck people over. This attitude extending to prisons and jails is hardly surprising especially when combined with the idea that many Americans have that if you're arrested, you are presumed guilty even before trial and deserve to get raped in jail even if your crime was minor. That's before you even get a trial and this attitude is so prevalent a lot of people are murdered by cops in jail before they even get to trial. So yeah, in light of the entire culture revolving around allowing the powerful to fuck over the weak, it's hardly surprising innocent people have to pay for their jail and prison stay. They should be thankful to their captors they're still alive (this gratefulness towards one's abuser is discussed in another comment here).