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āYou see a lot of cases where people are trying to explain to their probation officer why they honestly cannot afford to pay,ā he says, "and essentially the response from the probation officer is, āI donāt want to hear that. You donāt pay that, Iām going to throw you in jail.ā
This nation is heading down a dark and dirty road when we outsource everything. Due to GOP assholiness, we either do not collect enough in taxes or we have very mixed up Military Industrial Complex values ā¦ and the result is something like what is happening to these poor people who run afoul of the law. We should never incarcerate a person for lacking funds to pay for services that should be performed by the municipality or state in the first place!
Couple this crap with the rapidly rising idiocy on the far-right and how that same idiocy is transforming the GOP into the likes of Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and that super-crazy Le Page in the governorās seat in Maine and you can really understand why so many of us are concerned about the trajectory of this once great nation.
Oh, and no, Donald Trump cannot make America great again. He wouldnāt know how to even begin.
āThe unfortunate part of our judicial system is once you get caught up in it, itās like a rat wheel you can never get out of because of some of the fines and the probation,ā
THATāS THE ENTIRE FUCKING POINT!!! Why do you think inner cities experience such disparately heavy-handed enforcement? Poor areas? These private prisons companies and other private ājustice servicesā operation are nothing but parasitic leeches who found a way to exploit the poor who find themselves in a situation in which they are under threat of incarceration if they donāt pony up the dough. And they conveniently serve the purposes of further entrenching people poverty, widening the wealth gap, fluffing the government purses at the expense of the poor instead of the rich and, yes, deliberately preventing ācertain peopleā from competing once theyāve suffered even one arrest or conviction of a misdemeanor.
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