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Many jailed in U.S. for crime of being poor


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2014 Mar 2, 7:10am   916 views  4 comments

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http://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/mar/02/poor-

In January 2013, Clifford Hayes, a homeless man suffering from lupus and looking for a night off the streets, walked into the sheriffs office in Augusta, Georgia. It was a standard visit: he needed police clearance, a requirement of many homeless shelters, to stay overnight at the Salvation Army. Hayes expected to go straight to the shelter. Instead, he was handcuffed and later thrown in jail. Hayes hadnt committed a crime or at least, he hadnt in many years since 2007, when he committed several driving-related misdemeanor offenses, for which he pled guilty and was put on probation. That probation...

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1   Blurtman   2014 Mar 2, 8:19am  

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.

2   Dan8267   2014 Mar 2, 10:06am  

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.

3   justme   2014 Mar 2, 11:24am  

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.

4   Robber Baron Elite Scum   2014 Mar 2, 12:47pm  

jojo says

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.

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