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Clifford Hayes should have laundered money for the Mexican cartels. Or sold fraudulent securities. If he had, he'd be a free man today and a wealthy destructive parasite on society. Just the type of person we admire in America.
The solution is simple. The arresting officers, the prosecutors, and the judges who put the guy in jail, must pay for his incarceration costs, all fines and legal fees, and this guy's rent for life. Then this shit will never happen again and taxpayers will save a lot of money while the innocent don't go to jail. Problem solved.
The problem here is the privatized probation system, as well as the fact that debtor's perison has been re-insituted.
It is shocking that a civilized country has debtor's prison. And it applies in at least two areas: Probation fees and divorce/child support/alimony.
Yep, just another example of trying to solve everything via privatization and the 'free market'.
Privatization is not a bad thing.
It only becomes a bad thing when it starts to involve public property, public resources and government related agencies/activities.
Which would be fascism.
The merging of private and state powers.
But almost everything not being private is also very bad. It's called communism.
http://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/mar/02/poor-
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