[sparklite2]

You seem to have mistaken FR for DU.

[DoughtyOne]

Don't do the crime if you can't pay the fine.

And if have to pay the fine, don't whine.

After the events in Paris on 11/13, I will be adding
this to my posts for the next week. I'm certain our
turn is coming again soon. We stand united against
Islamic extremists.

Some music for reflection if the mood strikes you.
Courtesy of: Kartographer
beautiful [02:23]

An honorable mention also goes out to Lassana Bathily , a Muslim immigrant from Mali.
Mr. Bathily sheltered customers at the Jewish Deli and helped police by providing info
on the terrorists, and providing the location of survivors in the deli.
Courtesy of: Tijeras_Slim

[UCANSEE2]

"Ya don't say!"

[PAR35]

people in custody are not slaves.

Looks like someone didn't bother to ever read the Constitution. Maybe the dude (or dudette - not sure what a Jaye is) ought to try going to a decent law school.

13th Amendment, Section 1: Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

[Talisker]

Inmates aren’t slave - that’s very true. And they are treated as such, and it’s wrong. That’s also very true. Private jails should be tightly controlled to keep them nonprofit.

[ConservativeMind]

I wouldn’t mind rebating charges to those found “not guilty.”

[Fiddlstix]

Bump
To Read Later

[Rurudyne]

Easily solved: have the county reimburse those whose charges are dismissed or who are found not guilty, zeroing out their account.

Alternatively, they could let all inmates choose between meals little more fancy PB&J or scrambled egg sandwich (all on white bread) and ice water to drink for a buck fifty or two from a vending machine OR something pricier from the commissary if that first solution seems too expensive.

[max americana]

“Jails are NOT profit centers,”

Who says they aren’t? If anything alleviates the taxpayer’s and makes these scumbags work and be self-dependent, why not?

[moehoward]

Private for profit jails, obviously a bad idea. This is a county jail charging for services the proceeds of which go towards other inmate services.

“Granted, this money is spent on inmate welfare and services: Library, Chaplain, hygiene, recreation, TV, etc. “

The writer complains about expense of phone calls, and that they are recorded.
So what, write a letter, you ain’t going anywhere.

[Clintonfatigued]

I support privatization in the abstract, but not of prisons or jails. If they operate for profit, they will look for excuses to keep as many people incarcerated for as long as possible regardless of whether it’s justified, making sure that the inmates won’t be able to function outside of them so that the profits keep coming in. They will bribe law enforcement to rush to judgment even for innocent suspects to keep the profits coming in. Corruption among staff would flourish in a way hard to imagine now.

The Kids for Cash juvenile court scandal in Wilkes-Barre is proof of what privatizing jails leads to.

[BuffaloJack]

The 13th Amendment to the Constitution declares, “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”

The clause “except as a punishment for crime”, basically says the criminals can we worked like rented mules. Slavery is allowed if you are a criminal.

[TomGuy]

Prison work farms used to be pretty common.

They built many of the roads in the first half of the 1900s. Some unruly ones became part of the roadbeds.

[kcvl]

Jaye Ryan

[Fresh Wind]

Here’s a clue for you...

Jails are not resort hotels.