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Bacano@lemmy.world to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

TIL you can pay $100 per night for Premium Jail with more comfortable conditions

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TIL you can pay $100 per night for Premium Jail with more comfortable conditions

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Bacano@lemmy.world to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 1 year ago
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Upgrade your jail cell - for a price
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In what is commonly called “pay-to-stay” or “private jail,” a constellation of small city jails — at least 26 of them in Los Angeles and Orange counties — open their doors to defendants who can afford the option.
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    If I saw an article with the title

    UK man has $80,000 room and board bill from prison after being found not guilty of murder.

    I’d be looking to see if it was from the onion.

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      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy31pk1w0lo

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        Holy shit.

        He explained that his compensation was also calculated on the assumption that he would never have worked and would have received benefits.

        Fucking monsters.

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      Probably to regain the lost funds into the imprisonment fund from the compensation fund for wrongful imprisonment. Might be more of a dumb than an evil thing.

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        No, it’s evil.

        Another person replied with a real story where it happened. They also did this to the guy wrongfully imprisoned 25 years

        He explained that his compensation was also calculated on the assumption that he would never have worked and would have received benefits.

        https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy31pk1w0lo

        Edit: And I could see maybe its hard to assume he’d become a lawyer or Dr with high wages, but no job with only benefits, and then room and board subtracted? Savage.

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