Posted on 11/05/2011 5:17:25 AM PDT by Libloather
Edited on 11/05/2011 6:33:52 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Riverside County supervisors voted this week to move forward with an ordinance that would force jail inmates to reimburse the county for the costs of incarcerating them.
The supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to consider the measure introduced by Supervisor Jeff Stone. It will come back for a vote next week.
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“...the court must determine the defendant is able to pay.”
So, if you’re a complete waste of humanity who lives from the proceeds of one crime to the next (paycheck to paycheck)and has no assets, you get a certain punishment.
However, if you’ve tried to make something of yourself, have some prospects and assets, you get a certain punishment plus you have to pay for it.
Those who have tried get punished twice.
The law of unintended consequences will kick in.
In the beginning traffic tickets were created to remind people to obey traffic laws, it soon became a way for a city to raise money.
If the routine bad guys can not afford to pay for a night in jail, how soon will it be before middle class people get caught up by the law and are forced to spend a night or two in jail.
There are so many laws on the book today that it is possible to break a law without even being aware of it. So like cops looking for that broken tail light, they will begin enforcing some of these more arcane laws just for the revenue.
All of this is just a symptom of what is wrong with the country right now. Governments at all levels have forgotten what there function are and have become social workers. That is they are spending money (money they do not have) on things they have no business spending on.
Governments do not have a money problem they have a spending problem which is why we keep seeing these schemes to get more money.
Somewhere down the line there will be no more money for them to take and this entire house of cards will collapse.
“You have them manufacture goods.”
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Uhh, I think that is covered under:
“The best you could hope for is attachment
of wages from some prison employment,”
While I have zero sympathy for convicts, I don’t think
the USSA is going to whips and chains to force labor.
Even then it would be robing Peter to pay Paul.
Not sure about cable, but I’m positive they get valet parking.
So you put someone in jail and then bill them for room and board? What if they cannot pay? Do you extend their jail time? What if they can find room and board elsewhere for 1/4th of the cost? Will people accept the idea that they can be put away against their will and then be forced to pay a daily rate? Will they be allowed to pay in Pesos, or other currency?
What will they do if someone can’t pay, put them in jail?
If cities already use red-light cameras mainly as a source of revenue, what will happen when they find out they can just lock up more prisoners?
Treat this like the student loan program. Get out and have a $100,000 debt hanging over you. Do it the American way for a change.
You're probably all too right with this comment. And, if it is costing the Riverside taxpayers $142.42 per day per prisoner then the taxpayers should have a big problem with that. Only way it could be that expensive is by union workers or corruption or both. This seems to me to be a perfect candidate for kicking the county out and privatizing the county jail operation.
Being a little dramatic aren’t you? Making them work is the same as using whips and chains?
They should work.
These fools think they are going to put liens on their houses.
Good luck with that one, jerks.
I agree. I know someone who, several years ago was locked up for 7 months while waiting for trial and during trial, who was not guilty and indeed was found at trial to be not guilty. He may be the exception to the general rule but how much would it take to compensate him for 7 months of his life, loss of freedom and loss of his job?
I don’t agree with this.. If the criminal has any money it should go to their victums.
This policy will quickly be abused as Government starts trolling for money.
I live in this county, was raised here. I don’t know how Stone figures 3-5M per year raised by this. This may be purely reaction to MUCH frustration.
Stone recently talked to other county supervisors about trying to secede from California, and become “South California”. South California would exclude LA county. That county is a black hole sucking in tax revenue from other counties and harboring the largest concentration of gangs and feral humans. We need a wall around that place as well as the southern border.
Privatization has worked in other areas and saved a bundle.
Didn’t you know that most prisoners are home owners with good high paying jobs and sizable savings? < sarcasm >
It ain’t like that around here but maybe we’re different – or maybe Riverside County is out of touch with reality.
I think there is a fair amount of misunderstanding going on,I am against this because there aren’t anyone outside of White collar or government employees committing crimes who can afford this and they don’t go to jail.
Everyone else,not a bad idea to figure out how the guilty and I mean people found guilty in a court of law should something but not these rates.
At the end of the day,it is California that is dying off a thousand cuts. Unions gone crazy, hospitals closing down due to illegal immigration and college campuses falling apart due to having no funding or real leadership.
Services are overbooked,underfunded and those using them(along with those running them) just add to the deterioration.
Bear in mind there will be more and more people getting released from jail,as the counties cannot afford to keep them.For the law to have bite in California,it needs to stay funded,right now money goes to Pensions and all kinds of idiotic programs.
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