[2021] Pay-to-Stay Fees Impoverish Prisoners, Increase Recidivism | Prison Legal News - eviltoast

Just stumbled into this and didn’t want to be angry alone. Wtf even is this country, Jesus.

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    University of Washington sociology professor Alexes Harris said it was a vicious cycle. “If I could create a perfect system to maintain inequality, create inequality and sustain it over time, this is the system. The process perfectly labels, stigmatizes, financially burdens and imposes further legal consequences to poor people.”

    No kidding jfc this is capitalist innovation to the extreme. I wish all the people who care about gulags held the US to the same standards.