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It doesn't seem fair to charge prisoners for the cost of their incarceration - it strikes me as a system open to abuse. Prisoners should be able to not work and
by ndsipa_pomu 3y ago
It doesn't seem fair to charge prisoners for the cost of their incarceration - it strikes me as a system open to abuse. Prisoners should be able to not work and not accrue debt for that choice (it may not be a choice for medical issues etc) and then it would be unfair to only charge those that do work.
- speeder 3y agoTrust me. In some countries either you charge prisoners... Or you don't make prisoners (meaning kill criminals even for small crimes. Or let them roam free and have the population kill them instead).
- ndsipa_pomu 3y agoWell that sounds like a false dichotomy to me. There's always going to be some prisoners that are either too ill or considered too dangerous to be allowed to work, so how do they get charged for their stay? Also, the prisoners that have no reasonable chance of recovering their freedom are not going to have much incentive to work and what do you do when they go into arrears - put them in double prison?