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I hate everything about this, but the part I hate more than everything else is how 'normal' jails being rife with violence and abuse is just treated as a matter of fact, not as something that needs to be fixed.
“They tried to tell me he was afraid of the general population … but that’s part of jail,” he said in a recent interview. “That’s what makes you not want to go back, it being such a horrible experience.”
No it fucking shouldn't be, what the hell is wrong with these people?
we dont have a justice system. we have a revenge system. it all makes sense when you view it from its reality.
Well if we had reform oriented prisons we would run out of slave labor, duh. That's why it's in the constitution 🦅🦅
In Australia we don't have the slave workhouses you have in the states, but our justice system is still focused on retribution rather than rehabilitation.
Unsurprisingly, both countries started in part as British penal colonies for debtors and convicts.
Hurt people hurt people on a cultural scale
......stop being right!
Yeah, prison reform is very badly needed in this country.
Essentially torturing people and subjecting them horrific conditions has never left a person better off than they were before.
This is why we need educated, qualified, and ethically motivated people to make decisions about how places like prisons are run. Not greedy, soulless, corporate husks who exist purely to accumulate money.
The for profit prison system needs to be abolished.
Yeah the reason you don't want to go back is that you aren't allowed to leave for an extended period of time. We need to be fostering jails that leave people capable of reintegration to society.
There was a weird thing in England that if you were found not guilty and released from prison, you'd have to pay the prison boarding costs because you had no right to be there in the first place
If I saw an article with the title
UK man has $80,000 room and board bill from prison after being found not guilty of murder.
I'd be looking to see if it was from the onion.
Holy shit.
He explained that his compensation was also calculated on the assumption that he would never have worked and would have received benefits.
Fucking monsters.
Probably to regain the lost funds into the imprisonment fund from the compensation fund for wrongful imprisonment. Might be more of a dumb than an evil thing.
No, it's evil.
Another person replied with a real story where it happened. They also did this to the guy wrongfully imprisoned 25 years
He explained that his compensation was also calculated on the assumption that he would never have worked and would have received benefits.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy31pk1w0lo
Edit: And I could see maybe its hard to assume he'd become a lawyer or Dr with high wages, but no job with only benefits, and then room and board subtracted? Savage.
Same thing for Germany.
Someone is currently suing the Bavarian government for 750,000€ for 13 years of wrong imprisonment (he only received 400,000€ in damages, or 75€ per day).
Now the government is demanding 100,000€ back - 50,000€ for food and accomodation and 50,000€ for the total wage he received from mandatory prison labor.
They're suing his WAGE back for work he still did???
It's not like he had any rights to do his mandatory 2€-per-hour job. Completely understandable /s
I've lived in the UK my whole life and I've never heard of this. I'm going to have to ask for a source because it really does sound like an urban myth.
Send them an invoice for your consulting services. Or, sue for kidnapping.
So you had no right to be there but definitely didn't have the right to not be there
Reading this shit as European...
Seriously, the most American article I've read today. Time for a nap, just after I scrub my brain.
Holy shit. Every time I think we can’t go lower I see something that blows my mind despite deep cynicism.
It's insane to me that even the "luxury" jail looks like a horrendous dungeon, and the implied solution in the article is that everyone should be in the even worse county jails. It's no wonder the US has the recidivism rate that it does. All of the cells for all prisoners need to be upgraded to something that looks like a living space if there's going to be any hope for the persons in them to be able to reintegrate into normal society when they're released. Being afraid of getting raped and murdered everyday while living in a gray concrete box doesn't exactly produce well adjusted individuals. I thought the punishment was supposed to be the incarceration itself, not the added daily violence in jails. It's so barbaric, people who manage to get out of these places and become productive members of society seem almost superhuman to me.
In the Bible Belt, you pay to stay and perform free or seriously underpaid labor for garbage cells, and phone calls are expensive.
But what started out as an antidote to overcrowding has evolved into a two-tiered justice system that allows people convicted of serious crimes to buy their way into safer and more comfortable jail stays.
The most hilarious part is believing that this is not the system behaving exactly as expected.
So... In other jails in the US, probably for profit, it costs money to stay and they don't give the option for a better room
Cheaper than my rent. Where can I sign up?
I thought you were joking and then I did the math... Unfortunately I lose my pay if I'm locked up so I'll go back to looking at campground commuting...
Commit a non violent felony that doesn't step in to federal jurisdiction. Hire a good lawyer that can convince a judge to let you continue under your own recognizance working while you're living in jail awaiting trial. Every time you're trial date approaches push for an extension or a delay. Enjoy living in the premium cell at the zoo.
But living conditions and quality of life is so extremity better here in the Netherlands, so I'll stay here :) Plus, for at least the coming 4 years I wouldn't want to step foot in the US anyway.
Eh you'd be fine. Doesn't really matter who's in the white house if you're just visiting. The president has very little actual impact on day to day life. Who's in the white house is a symptom of the health of a country, not a cause of it. And, like herpes, one symptom may subside but the country is still infected.
What I'm saying is, if you wouldn't visit under trump, maybe reconsider visiting at all. Though I maintain that as a visitor you'd find the people you meet to be mostly polite and even kind, if maybe a little extra interested in you because you have an accent.
Definitely don't fucking move here though holy shit what an awful mistake that would be. In fact, if you ever do visit take me back with you. I'm cool, I'm handy, I make a mean chili. My wife loves to garden you'd basically have no chores!
I've seen many places around the world. I would like to see certain places in the US too but there are too many reasons I'd rather go somewhere else.
Why don't you leave by yourself? Plenty of really good countries you can go to. The Netherlands is nice but we have the biggest housing crisis of the EU, so maybe check other places first :)
I went to American public School.
I speak precisely one language, with maybe a passing interest in a few others. My wife doesn't even have that. Her job requires her to be able to communicate effectively. So that limits us to English speaking countries, Canada, the UK, Ireland, New Zealand and Australia. Of those, New Zealand and Ireland are tempting, though our careers aren't in high demand in either location.
Emigrating to a country we'd buy be interested in would be expensive and time consuming, and we have neither the time nor the money to accomplish that. Not to mention our families and friends are all here. We both have decent careers here.
Nah, you'd be fine in Germany, the Netherlands, Scandinavian countries too. Poland, Portugal. Everyone speaks English, loads of jobs where just English is fine. There are maaaaany expats who only speak English. There's no need to speak the local language at all. It's nice if you learn, but I have friends who live here for 7 years and only speak English and their own language (French, Swedish, German, Spanish, Portuguese). They say it's too hard to learn Dutch because everyone automatically switches to English when they hear you're not Dutch, so it's hard to practice. There are many Asian countries too where just English is fine as well. An American friend of mine is living out his pension on the Philippines with his wife. Doesn't speak a word which isn't English. My ex is from Mauritania, she's slowly learning German now that she's been living in Berlin for over 10 years, but it's hard not to pick up some German when you live there for so long. But most conversations are still in English.
So you've got loads of options! Most of them with better healthcare and no one owning guns. Many countries have special programs to help expats to settle. Help with taxes, finding a job and a house, etc. US citizens are very welcome in most countries in Europe, some even have special treats. Like in the Netherlands, there's a tax cut for expats with specialized jobs (like in tech).
Just avoid France and Southern Italy. In Northern Italy everyone speaks English, in the south they don't. And in France most people don't speak it or are to proud to speak it (unless in big cities but even there it's not too great). But in most countries rural parts have a lower quality and quantity of English speakers (not in the Netherlands though, here a non-English speaker is a rarity, mostly boomers).
$3k a month? in rent? Are you renting a 5 bedroom house in Manhattan?
That's a 200 sqft studio with no kitchen in Manhattan.
Shit my rent is 2400 and that's considered a steal for the place I live.
🤮 jesus christ
$3k a month gets you a small 2br apartment 45-60 minutes from Manhattan
Ask how I know
lol 3k$/mo is a studio apartment in manhattan.
This is a Cali thing, as far as I know. It's meant to reduce overcrowding.
This would not fly in some other areas of the US, like the south.
I'm not willing to Google search this but, is this a cheap Marriott? Or a more expensive county jail
Well the room looks pretty crappy, but versus a dormitory with 8 bunks in a room, this is a Marriot.
A possible dystopian future will have the actual Marriott brand running these pay-for-premium jail cells. Future advertisements will boast about using credit card reward points to book fancier accommodations while awaiting trial for white collar crimes.
That article was fun on mobile.
I assumed this was sarcasm and expected a ton of ads or huge margins or something... You were right, that was fun on mobile.