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These fines cause people to reoffend to get the money to pay them, as often these fines and fees cause you to be reincarcerated if no payment is made. Even wit
by qingcharles 2y ago
These fines cause people to reoffend to get the money to pay them, as often these fines and fees cause you to be reincarcerated if no payment is made.
Even without reoffending, it stops people reintegrating successfully as it is very hard to get a job after incarceration and people end up having to take cash jobs for way below minimum wage and live in slums just to try to pay off these debts.
- SkyBelow 2y ago>These fines cause people to reoffend to get the money to pay them, Sending them to prison causes them to reoffend as shown by the recidivism rate of people based on how long they are in prison, as they learn to be better criminals while not learning skills to fit back into society, and as imprisonment creates a life changing stigma which negative impacts their lives. Perhaps instead of criticizing fines, you should criticize imprisonment and even the act of convicting them that creates the stigma that makes gainful legal employment so hard to find.
- qingcharles 2y agoThe primary skills you use locked up are how to be sneaky, how to hide shit, how to detect camera zones. You couldn't get cheese at one institution unless you had a court date; they would give you a cheese sandwich at court. I would smuggle coffee out of the jail (through a full naked visual body cavity search) to trade for cheese sandwiches in the court holding pens, and then smuggle the cheese slices back in (through another full naked visual body cavity search). Those are excellent life skills. Thanks jail!