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Commit the crime, do the time -- and in doing the time, you should pay for your stay, supervisors in one Florida county say.
Riverside County officials voted Tuesday to introduce an ordinance seeking reimbursements from defendants for jail costs, which total an estimated $142 per day, MyFoxLA.com reports.
Good idea. Not everyone who goes to jail is unemployed. And if they are unemployed, own a car, have them sell it, or better yet, put them to work at garbage dumps or recycling plants, or some other "get your hands dirty" job and let them work off what they owe. Of course it would be at minimum wage.
If you can get yourself put in jail, you should be able to get yourself out of jail. If that means paying for your stay, so be it. Why should I have to pay your idiocy?
Well I don't support it because it won't work and will place them back in jail over and over again for non payment, which just drives up the cost of the criminal system.
A better idea that I have seen work is work release. Whereby people charged with nonviolent crimes are allowed to go to work everyday and then check back in to jail after work. They must pay for the work release at the cost of $50 a day. In this way, they have a job when they get out and contribute to society again and the cost of their incarceration is paid for by them. This system works.
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