County Jail Run for Profit: Inmates = Slaves

Civil Rights Attorney ^ | November 19, 2015 | Jaye Ryan, Attorney at Law

[Talkwire]

Jails are NOT profit centers, and people in custody are not slaves. Privatization of jail system phones and commissary has resulted in overcharging inmates, and a lucrative revenue source for the Contra Costa County Jail.

Remember our justice system is based around the presumption of innocence, "Innocent until proven Guilty". In fact, in 78% of Contra Costa County jail detainees are awaiting trial. These are people who could not make bail and are in the jail awaiting their day in court. Pre-sentence inmates are milked like revenue cows to make money for the County.

The Contra Costa Jail makes $1.5Million a year from overcharging detainees for phone and commissary services.

Full article here

[sparklite2]

You seem to have mistaken FR for DU.

[DoughtyOne]

Don't do the crime if you can't pay the fine.

And if have to pay the fine, don't whine.

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[TYVets]

$25 for one call using jail system phones is too cheap?

[UCANSEE2]

"Ya don't say!"

[PAR35]

people in custody are not slaves.

Looks like someone didn't bother to ever read the Constitution. Maybe the dude (or dudette - not sure what a Jaye is) ought to try going to a decent law school.

13th Amendment, Section 1: Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

[Talisker]

Inmates aren’t slave - that’s very true. And they are treated as such, and it’s wrong. That’s also very true. Private jails should be tightly controlled to keep them nonprofit.

[ConservativeMind]

I wouldn’t mind rebating charges to those found “not guilty.”

[Fiddlstix]

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[Rurudyne]

Easily solved: have the county reimburse those whose charges are dismissed or who are found not guilty, zeroing out their account.

Alternatively, they could let all inmates choose between meals little more fancy PB&J or scrambled egg sandwich (all on white bread) and ice water to drink for a buck fifty or two from a vending machine OR something pricier from the commissary if that first solution seems too expensive.

[Hot Tabasco]

You seem to have mistaken FR for DU.

Why, for simply posting an article????? Isn't that what everyone does?

Considering that Talkwire has 13 years more seniority than you, I think he knows what he's doing........

[Rurudyne]

Of course. But I believe he’s talking about those still awaiting trial / hearing.

[Talkwire]

Article mentions that 78% of detainees in that jail are “pre-sentence”, so they are not guilty of anything except not being to afford bail.

[trisham]

sparklite2
Since Nov 30, 2014

[ronnie raygun]

NYC jails are run by the gangs with the help of the sandanista mayor and his commie city council promoting social justice, Heard there were 246 assault on staff so far this year......... un presidented

[Rurudyne]

Not to pick nits, but wouldn’t that be pre-verdict or pre-trial? As someone could have had a trial, not yet be sentenced, and still be pre-sentence.

Of course anyone who is pre-trial would be pre-sentence too. Though calling them that almost makes it seem like their trials are foregone conclusions.

[Michael.SF.]

Looks like someone didn’t bother to read the article.

[max americana]

“Jails are NOT profit centers,”

Who says they aren’t? If anything alleviates the taxpayer’s and makes these scumbags work and be self-dependent, why not?

[Rurudyne]

Yeah, it’s a shame the President isn’t in there. ^.-

[Autonomous User]

I can eat fifty eggs.