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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[–] 133 points 2 years ago (1 child)

In particular, to force you back into crime, to be able to pay for that debt.

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  • [–] 70 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Absolutely, I mean I'm already a felon, what's one more barrier to credit and gainful employment?

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    Did Donald file for personal bankruptcy or did a Donald business file for bankruptcy? It might be like stealing: legal and cool if you are a corporation and the victims are poors.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Bankruptcy without a lawyer, a permanent address and transportation to the courts is a serious hurdle. People rotating out of prison are already at a disadvantage. My point is they shouldn't be in debt when they leave prison in the first place. The whole point is that they paid their debt to society.

    This isn't, oh shit I'm in over my head in a cornerstore, restaurant, family warehouse, what have you. It's very tone-deaf to not address the elephant in the room of these people entering society at a grave disadvantage.

    The services below should not be necessary for every person incarcerated by the state. The system is broken.

    https://legalbeagle.com/5666136-file-bankruptcy-prison.html

    https://library.nclc.org/article/bankruptcys-role-alleviating-criminal-justice-debt-0

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Bankruptcy isn't a bad option if you don't have any credit or have bad credit already. You can turn things around in a couple of months. Also I am unaware of employers performing a credit check as a basis for employment.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Depends on the company. Background checks can include credit checks. Any job with money or security clearance will check credit and large employers sometimes do as well.

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    Wait, are you unironically advocating for people not to declare bankruptcy after leaving prison with crippling debt?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'm saying it shouldn't be necessary in the first place. You're supposed to have paid your debt to society by being in there. Federal amd state tax money pay for you to be there, charging room and board is predatory.

    Just declare bankruptcy bro! Is a very tone deaf response to what is essentially bonded labor.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago

    I'm saying it shouldn't be necessary in the first place.

    Well no shit. Nobody’s defending this. Dude’s proposing something to help while legislation is in this shit state.

    Just declare bankruptcy bro! Is a very tone deaf response to what is essentially bonded labor.

    You need to get out of your own head if you think that was a response. No one’s out to get you.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I interned at a bank and they do a credit check as a standard step for hiring someone. I also overheard HR at that bank talking about how they should stop running credit checks before hiring people because they can't use the info from that for anything and it just costs money to run the credit check

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I wish i knew why you were being downvoted but nobody offered a counter point. Bankrupcy seems like a logical solution for this situation.

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