Very weird that I am so old and have literally never heard this mentioned in a TV show or book or movie or anything.
In four out of five states, if you go to prison, you are literally paying for the time you spend there.
As you can guess, this results in crippling debt as soon as you’re released.
The county gets back a fraction of what they hold over your head the rest of your life until you commit suicide(or die naturally and peacefully with the sword of damocles hanging over your head).
$20-$80 a day according to Rutgers.
Counties apparently sue people and employ wage garnishment to get back the money that majority of people obviously cannot pay back.
https://www.rutgers.edu/news/states-unfairly-burdening-incarcerated-people-pay-stay-fees
I’m fully aware of this and saw what it did when I pasted it in…however…
I was also aware of this before I even began to, so I didn’t bother.
Did you see that slash trick
another commenter says
if you throw a after a line
all of the following lines will be
Automatically formatted
Correctly
For song lyrics Not this one though
Oh, but you still have to throw a after every single line. \
I literally copy/pasted the thing in two clicks and had zero interest in spending time making edits.