Pay-to-stay (imprisonment) - Wikipedia
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Very weird that I am so old and have literally never heard this mentioned in a TV show or book or movie or anything.

In four out of five states, if you go to prison, you are literally paying for the time you spend there.

As you can guess, this results in crippling debt as soon as you’re released.

The county gets back a fraction of what they hold over your head the rest of your life until you commit suicide(or die naturally and peacefully with the sword of damocles hanging over your head).

$20-$80 a day according to Rutgers.

Counties apparently sue people and employ wage garnishment to get back the money that majority of people obviously cannot pay back.

https://www.rutgers.edu/news/states-unfairly-burdening-incarcerated-people-pay-stay-fees

  • @w2tpmf@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0•7 months ago

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    • @Varyk@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      0•7 months ago

      Yeah that’s a good one.

      You can separate the lines so it’s not all clumped together by adding double spaces at the end of the line.

      I had to do that once when I posted a message like this, haha.

      I felt like a dingus tapping out all the spaces, but it was very satisfying when it was properly formatted.

      • LvxferreEnglish
        0•7 months ago

        For music the backslash at the end (\) is also useful, as it allows you to split verses without a new paragraph. For example

        verse 1\
verse 2

verse 3\
verse 4

        appears as

        verse 1
        verse 2

        verse 3
        verse 4

      • @w2tpmf@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0•7 months ago

        You can separate the lines so it’s not all clumped together by adding double spaces at the end of the line.

        I’m fully aware of this and saw what it did when I pasted it in…however…

        I felt like a dingus tapping out all the spaces

        I was also aware of this before I even began to, so I didn’t bother.

        • @Varyk@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
          0•7 months ago

          Did you see that slash trick
          another commenter says

          if you throw a after a line
          all of the following lines will be

          Automatically formatted
          Correctly
          For song lyrics Not this one though

          Oh, but you still have to throw a after every single line. \