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"The department responded with a counterclaim or a "cost of incarceration lien" of $54,750 -- the total cost of Barrett's 1,095 day stay in the prison at $50 a day. "
"When another inmate, Dee Taylor, was released after serving a three-year bid in various Florida prisons, he also got a bill for around $55,000
from the Florida Department of Corrections. "
https://money.cnn.com/2015/09/18/news/economy/prison-fees-inmates-debt/index.html
http://archive.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2009/08/16/some_states_charging_inmates_for_stay/
As far as prisons having an interest in filling up the place? You might want to read up on for-profit prisons that are run from a business point of view. What do businesses need? Customers. For profit prisons do well when they have more inmates.
Furthermore, the I don't believe much at all of what the ACLU says. Very politically driven organization.
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2017/03/16/prison-labour-is-a-billion-dollar-industry-with-uncertain-returns-for-inmates
https://time.com/3446372/criminal-justice-prisoners-profit/
https://www.aclu.org/issues/smart-justice/mass-incarceration/criminalization-private-debt
"In the cases the ACLU documented, debtors failed to appear at hearings for various reasons, most often because they did not receive notification of the court date or even of the existence of the lawsuit. Some were unable to appear because of work, child care responsibilities, lack of transportation, physical disability, illness, or dementia. We found two cases in which debtors missed hearings because they were terminally ill and died shortly after warrants were issued for their arrest."
Karsten, do you believe that the ACLU would "spread" a story like this? Are you familiar with the ACLU and the sometimes difficult positions it takes to support civil rights?
This is the kind of rumors like social security being cancelled, etc that tend to float around senior communities.
Its not click bait per se, but these things spread around and are not true.
Often people don't even know they need to show up in court. They aren't served. The first they hear about it is when they get stopped for a traffic ticket or go through a border. Then they are arrested for failure to appear in court. A person has even been arrested for not showing up in court because she was in a coma.
The key part of this "scam" is that the amount paid in bail should be returned to someone at the end of legal proceedings. In the case of being jailed for debt, the bail is given to the person holding the debt. Not coincidentally, the amount that bail is set at is the same amount as the amount owed.
Here's a report that came out about this a couple of years ago. It's a US problem. Not just a Kansas problem.
https://www.aclu.org/report/pound-flesh-criminalization-private-debt
Some of the threads on these forums testify to the fact that many people are overwhelmed and aren't capable of responding as folks in dissimilar situations.
I didn't consider this clickbait; if I did, I wouldn't have posted it.