Did you know that people who end up in
prison for a variety of different reasons have a very good chance of
being charged a fee for every day that they stay behind bars as if they
were voluntarily staying at a hotel?
According to a new ACLU report, this is exactly what is happening all across the United States, in select prisons where these policies have been enacted. The BBC reported that roughly 10 million people in the United States owe a combined total of over $10 billion in “pay-to-stay” prison debt.
Obviously, these fees can make a bad situation even worse for people who are serving time for petty crimes, especially considering that most of the people who do end up behind bars come from lives of poverty to begin with. Now, when many of these inmates are released from prison they are unable to get back on their feet due to this crippling debt.
Some people who have been arrested for petty offenses, many drug-related, are released from jail with tens of thousands of dollars worth of debt that make it near impossible for them to rebuild their live
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/study-exposes-inhumane-pay-to-stay-policies-charge-prisoners-stay-jail-leaving-unpayable-debt/#spfjJuXb0TkLuaZB.99
According to a new ACLU report, this is exactly what is happening all across the United States, in select prisons where these policies have been enacted. The BBC reported that roughly 10 million people in the United States owe a combined total of over $10 billion in “pay-to-stay” prison debt.
Obviously, these fees can make a bad situation even worse for people who are serving time for petty crimes, especially considering that most of the people who do end up behind bars come from lives of poverty to begin with. Now, when many of these inmates are released from prison they are unable to get back on their feet due to this crippling debt.
Some people who have been arrested for petty offenses, many drug-related, are released from jail with tens of thousands of dollars worth of debt that make it near impossible for them to rebuild their live
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/study-exposes-inhumane-pay-to-stay-policies-charge-prisoners-stay-jail-leaving-unpayable-debt/#spfjJuXb0TkLuaZB.99
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