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WCDT 2957-2961 (11-15 May 2015)
ZoeB:
--- Quote from: chaospersonified on 15 May 2015, 20:31 ---See, now this is what some folks, including myself call 'some serious bureaucratic bullshit!' The fuck, these people done fucked up, and they fucking DONE the goddamn time, leave 'em the fuck alone already!
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http://www.businessinsider.com.au/human-rights-watch-report-on-for-profit-probation-2014-2
Nothing bureaucratic about it - the probation companies are for-profit.
--- Quote ---This Catch-22 might sound like an absurd anomaly, but poor people around the U.S. are becoming indebted to for-profit companies after getting arrested for misdemeanours. In July 2012, The New York Times reported on this trend and noted that three dozen for-profit companies that levy probation fines operate in Georgia alone.
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--- Quote ---The supervision fees paid to private companies range from $US35 to $US100 a month and can be even higher if offenders have to pay court fines on top of them. Barrett’s total payment to Sentinel was $US360 a month, according to Human Rights Watch.
In Barrett’s case, he was also ordered to pay a $US80 startup fee to Sentinel, according to Human Rights Watch. Barrett was already poor and living mostly off food stamps when he was arrested for stealing the beer, so he couldn’t even afford that initial payment. He spent a month in jail just for not paying that fee. After he got out of jail, Barrett started giving his blood plasma to try to make money to pay the fees for his alcohol monitoring bracelet.
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What do they want, blood? Apparently yes.
While this may sound like some Dystopian SciFi story, the practice is spreading. Debtor's prisons too.
Now back to the QC-verse.
Pintman:
I'd just like to take the opportunity to point out the issue of Hunk Rump on the shelf...
jwhouk:
--- Quote from: Storel on 15 May 2015, 21:41 ---Aha, thank you!
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Thanking someone for posting a TV Tropes link... May God have mercy on your soul.
jwhouk:
Oh, and last I checked, ZoeB, probation and parole (what we call Community Corrections in Wisconsin) are government-run entities. And I can guarantee you that we don't profit from them at all.
If we did, I'd be driving a Tesla S and not a Chevy HHR.
Penquin47:
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 16 May 2015, 18:21 ---Oh, and last I checked, ZoeB, probation and parole (what we call Community Corrections in Wisconsin) are government-run entities. And I can guarantee you that we don't profit from them at all.
If we did, I'd be driving a Tesla S and not a Chevy HHR.
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They're supposed to be. But according to the article ZoeB posted, at least in Georgia... they ain't.
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