do people thrown in jail pay for their stay?

[Craig234]

no and its a good thing they don't. Last thing we need is another monetary incentive for jailing people.

Actually, the person paying for the cost isn't an incentive to jail them.

What IS an incentive to jail them is a private company who stands to profits by increasing jail populations, because every person jailed makes them more profit from taxpayers.

This is a common situation, and has had these companies lobbying for longer sentences, and long jail time for holding illegal immigrants IIRC.

That's a terrible situation to have people in jail to make someone profit.

 

[Craig234]

Well the state is just tax payers. State doesn't care how much it costs because we(citizens) get the bill anyways.

The state has an interest in reducing costs and taxation. It's not the same as a business, but every dollar saved can be used for other programs or popular tax reduction.

 

[Attic]

I'm against charging the prisoner to stay, had no idea this happened in the states anywhere.

I don't think it's right to remove someones ability to earn a living by putting them in jail, and then ask them to pay for their stay. If society dicatates that these people ought to be sent to jail, then society can pay for it.

I will say that we have too many people in jail and a lot of inmates don't belong there, but it is a differrnt topic.

 

[NoWhereM]

Actually, the person paying for the cost isn't an incentive to jail them.

What IS an incentive to jail them is a private company who stands to profits by increasing jail populations, because every person jailed makes them more profit from taxpayers.

This is a common situation, and has had these companies lobbying for longer sentences, and long jail time for holding illegal immigrants IIRC.

That's a terrible situation to have people in jail to make someone profit.

I'm currently working on a website (up and running soon my health permitting) which will provide evidence of how the juvenile justice system is being used in just that way. The profit isn't just in housing juveniles in correctional facilities but in all of the other services that can be billed at taxpayer expense while these kids are being held. The Social Services system (CPS) is being milked in the same way by the same people.

I'm concentrating on Minnesota as the evidence I have comes from there but my research suggests this is happening everywhere in the US, Canada, and the UK. I think people would be amazed if they ever realized how many billions of dollars each year are being siphoned off the child protection system by people who are being paid to protect children but who in reality are actually destroying these kids lives and killing any future they might have had.