Very weird that I am so old and have literally never heard this mentioned in a TV show or book or movie or anything.

In four out of five states, if you go to prison, you are literally paying for the time you spend there.

As you can guess, this results in crippling debt as soon as you’re released.

The county gets back a fraction of what they hold over your head the rest of your life until you commit suicide(or die naturally and peacefully with the sword of damocles hanging over your head).

$20-$80 a day according to Rutgers.

Counties apparently sue people and employ wage garnishment to get back the money that majority of people obviously cannot pay back.

https://www.rutgers.edu/news/states-unfairly-burdening-incarcerated-people-pay-stay-fees

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      i’m not going to argue with you. i can see from your comment history that you’re a lost cause. you are damning people to consequences they don’t deserve, which makes you no different from conservatives. you are effectively the enemy and deserve to be treated the same.

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        you are damning people to consequences they don’t deserve

        This is you telling poor people to vote for wealthy Dems

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          this is me telling you to pull your head out of your ass and think about consequences. stop replying to me. i have nothing more to say to you, traitor.

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            this is me telling you to pull your head out of your ass and think about consequences

            You can’t even accept you consent to bombing children in Gaza with your Biden vote.

            stop replying to me. i have nothing more to say to you, traitor.

            You lost the argument, and now are trying to find a way out lmao.

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              You can’t even accept you consent to bombing children in Gaza with your Biden vote.

              nah. my vote doesn’t mean that. what a very dumb thing to say, traitor.

              You lost the argument, and now are trying to find a way out lmao.

              lol. you’re fucking delusional, traitor.

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                nah. my vote doesn’t mean that. what a very dumb thing to say, traitor.

                It literally does whether you want to accept it or not. We provide money and weapons to bomb children, you vote in support of the president doing this.

                lol. you’re fucking delusional, traitor.

                The only traitor here is you voting for corporate fascism, willfully voting in support of the rich.