The various governments coercing money out of people is a pet peeve of mine. (I’ve got a little sleeping area and special food for it.) Apparently the topic is beginning to gain attention for the first time I’ve seen. The article addresses arresting people who haven’t paid their fines. The problem is they are trying to determine if they “willfully” haven’t paid them or they just can’t afford them. I think the whole concept of what we get fined (punished) for needs a second look. They don’t address whether the jail time served is in lieu of the fine or they simply keep you there until you cough up the money. That can be a long time and when does the concept that you can’t send people to jail without a trail come into play? Also, isn’t taking somebody’s license (and thus their livelihood) also count as house arrest?
Similar to this was the woman they sent to prison (prison, mind you, not jail) because her teenage son repeatedly skipped school. This too was a revenue issue, not a criminal issue. The woman was murdered while in prison. How can anybody justify putting otherwise law abiding citizens in dire danger like jail or prison when they have done nothing criminally wrong?
Notice there is two million dollars set aside to “study” the issue. Yeah, I’ll bet they’ll “study” real hard. Probably at multiple golfing getaways.
Funny how it’s an authoritarian DOJ that is “looking” at them, and in response to Ferguson’s non-issues.
Yup.
It amounts to a form of debtors’ prison.
In Europe, people used to be jailed because they couldn’t pay their debts.
If someone has the means to pay a fine, hold them accountable but don’t lock up someone can’t come with the fine.
There’s a difference between justice and sadism.
Remember, that jail space is supposed to be utilized for the most serious offenses and locking up poor people only leaves taxpayers on the hook for money that’s not going to cover the costs of locking them up in the first place.
We need perspective here people and make sure those who are sent to jail deserve to be there.
the woman they sent to prison (prison, mind you, not jail) because her teenage son repeatedly skipped school
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Government teachers and principals want to be thought of as reincarnated Mother Teresas.
Remember.
Behind every government school worker stand armed police, courts, and threats of prison. Real bullets in those guns on the hip.