Which wouldn’t work because they want us to keep digging ourselves into a deeper hole and line their pockets with interest without ever actually bringing the balances down. Can’t really do that in prison where you’re not generating any income for yourself.
I didn’t know that part, I figured with privatization it was the prisons making money just from having more people locked up, and any work they got was essentially slave labor for the benefit of the prison and its partners for pennies on the dollar.
Relatively speaking, very few prisons in the US are private/for profit, but the majority of US prisons make use of prison slave labor and bill prisoners for their sentence.
This is a civil case, jail ixnf an option. But they can take his buildings by force
Edit: *isn’t
Yeah, it’s good that debtors prison isn’t a thing.
Which wouldn’t work because they want us to keep digging ourselves into a deeper hole and line their pockets with interest without ever actually bringing the balances down. Can’t really do that in prison where you’re not generating any income for yourself.
You say that but prisons can and do force prisoners to work jobs and then use the income from that job to pay for the prisoner’s own sentence.
Most people who leave prison leave with a hefty bill for room and board, even after performing legal slave labor.
I didn’t know that part, I figured with privatization it was the prisons making money just from having more people locked up, and any work they got was essentially slave labor for the benefit of the prison and its partners for pennies on the dollar.
Only 8% of prisoners in the US are in for profit prisons.
Relatively speaking, very few prisons in the US are private/for profit, but the majority of US prisons make use of prison slave labor and bill prisoners for their sentence.
I’m curious what happens if they take his buildings that are used as collateral for other buildings/loans. might cost him much more?