association-of-free-people:

wernher-von-brawny:

killuo:

The economic exploitation of prisoners doesn’t end when they’re released. In 49 states, inmates are charged for the costs of their own incarceration.

The way this works varies. In some states, formerly incarcerated people are sent bills, and in others they are charged fines (sometimes called legal financial obligations, or LFOs). Some states collect the cost of incarcerating someone through windfall statutes, grabbing any inheritances, lottery winnings or proceeds from litigation.

There’s no way to pay these bills ahead of their due dates or work these charges off while in prison, no matter how hard you work. No inmate can earn enough inside to cover the costs of their incarceration; each one will necessarily leave with a bill.

Capitalism.

*State builds prison-industrial complex;

*Prison-industrial complex provides economic benefit to the state and serves as a legalized framework for concentrating abusive power and taxing authority in it;

*history is littered with marxist/socialist economic experiments that create massive prison / labor camp systems predicated on a legal code that criminalizes mankind to supplement their failing economic model with the output of slave labor;

*leftist in 2018 “Capitalism.”

You’ve Served Your Time. Now Here’s Your Bill.