Criminalizing the poor

[Panich52]

Criminalizing the poor

The ACLU’s Blog of Rights features a guest post by Kevin Thompson, who explains how a traffic ticket he couldn’t afford to pay in 30 days and a load of fines levied by a for-profit “parole” company led to five days in jail.

http://billmoyers.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1d6affa204bd5a2af07918fe1&id=394d834722&e=897250dfe0

[Adam051188]

1. hail...

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[virgogal]

3. Collections are usually outsourced to private companies----those with political connections.

Most annoying.

[Adam051188]

4. indubitably

[Cleita]

2. Same thing happened to me, except I was able to put the fine on a credit

card, otherwise they would have added another $40 if I couldn't pay all at once. I still have to come up with money for traffic school by April so it doesn't get reported to my insurance or that will double or maybe even triple. If I didn't live so far from a bus stop I would get rid of my car. I never thought of it as criminalizing the poor but it sure is.

[woo me with science]

5. K&R A entire new, massively profitable industry is being built on putting humans in cages.

Jail is profitable. Prison is even better, because they get slave labor.

Corporatism is evil.

[seveneyes]

6. Running afoul of the law

Can be costly in some jurisdictions. It appears to be a judgment call when this happens. Judge not, let ye be judged is a good idiom to live by yet many run afoul of the human equation and tilt out of bounds.

[woo me with science]

7. Way to miss the point.

But that appears to be the goal of corporate posting...to deflect from the point of articles that point out the predatory systems being constructed around us.

[seveneyes]

8. running afoul of the human equation and tilting out of bounds is not predatory?

Methinks thou doth missed my point. My posting is a corporation of one with education through experience.

[woo me with science]

9. kick.....Corporatism builds the prison state