Pay-to-stay (imprisonment) - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org

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

  • @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. \