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[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Yep! And (not to downplay the struggles of being a working class person with a mortgage but) you at least have the privilege of, y’know, not being in prison so you can get a job to pay off said debt as time goes on.

These guys just get dumped out of prison only to immediately be saddled with that ruinous financial burden.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Not to mention it’s hard to get a job or apartment fresh out of prison. Which is why recidivism is 80%+ in the US. You get paid pennies an hour for the work you do inside then get released with almost no money to start over. It’s a vicious cycle.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

Recidivism or suicide machine. Disability is no better. No one can survive on it. We have Nazi death camps without the balls to gas everyone.