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To: fwdude

How about no one can be jailed for truancy. Fines yes. Locked up no.


7 posted on 06/13/2014 8:46:42 AM PDT by 4yearlurker (Some people say that experts agree!!)
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To: 4yearlurker
How about no one can be jailed for truancy. Fines yes. Locked up no.

You apparently didn't read the article. She had racked up fines. What if the offender never pays the fines?

Are the authorities just going to keep asking "pretty please?" in perpetuity? Stupid.

17 posted on 06/13/2014 8:49:45 AM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: 4yearlurker

So what do you suggest we do when people don’t pay the fines? Fine ‘em again?


23 posted on 06/13/2014 8:51:30 AM PDT by Sherman Logan (Perception wins all the battles. Reality wins all the wars.)
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To: 4yearlurker

“How about no one can be jailed for truancy. Fines yes. Locked up no.”

Ultimately the threat behind every fine is prison.

One wonders what the little darlings were doing instead of going to school.


24 posted on 06/13/2014 8:52:02 AM PDT by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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To: 4yearlurker
Fines yes. Locked up no.

Why bother with the fines if you aren't going to enforce them? They tried fines with this woman. She thumbed her nose at them. You'd just say 'OK' at that point?

25 posted on 06/13/2014 8:52:20 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: 4yearlurker

The court costs were higher than the fines, and jail is for those that are unable to pay. I thought court costs were paid with taxes.


29 posted on 06/13/2014 8:55:19 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: 4yearlurker

And if they just ignore the fines?


152 posted on 06/13/2014 10:53:48 PM PDT by Kozak ("It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal" Henry Kissinger)
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