Perry County to charge inmates $25 a day for cells.

[jediuser598]

News from the county I used to live in:

Perry County inmates searching for their get-out-of-jail-free cards now will find they can't even get into the place for free.

Perry County commissioners on Thursday approved an ordinance allowing the jail to charge inmates $25 per day for the duration of their incarceration, as well as reimbursement for medical costs they incur while imprisoned by the county.

The ordinance is in response to escalating costs for housing, feeding and providing medical care to prisoners.

It was largely modeled off a similar ordinance in place in Jackson County.

"This ordinance at least allows us to recover some costs," State's Attorney David Searby said. "We're going to give it a try."

The fees may be assessed only following a criminal conviction against the inmate. Also, the ordinance applies only to inmates "with reasonable ability to repay the charges," meaning they are gainfully employed, possess marketable assets or expect additional monetary resources within the coming six months.

The ordinance authorizes the state's attorney to act as collector, and revenue is to be placed in the county's general fund. The ordinance takes effect immediately.

http://www.duquoin.com/news/20170924/pe ... -for-cells

[Speaker to Animals]

Expect incarcerations to increase after this.

[DBTrek]

. . . I suppose it's too much to hope that refusing to pay results in you being evicted from jail?

Man . . . prison for profit has got to end. This is a bad idea.
You know where the money to run prisons comes from? It's called taxes.
Trying to grab an extra $25 per day, per prisoner, without voter input is shady as shit.
Make your case to the taxpayer and ask for more money, that's the system.

[TheReal_ND]

Kind of old news in a way, inasmuch as the detainees seem to be asked to foot the bill, that seems to be new. Normally tax payers are and sheriffs actually got payed for everyday they kept someone locked up. I remember in NOP the word was they got fifty a day which would explain why I did two weeks after a week in the hole and sentenced to a week time served.

[Speaker to Animals]

Those Midwestern states are really bad when it comes to feeding off of the populace like that.

[SuburbanFarmer]

What kind of sick fucks... oh, right.

[TheReal_ND]

I could see the other side of a possible argument here however. Many detainees treat county lock up as a kind of hotel. They depend on it when they want to get off the street for a while, or in the case of Texas, they simply don't pay child support and choose to sit it out once every year or so for a few months. Logically, if people start to treat the county jail system as a kind of hotel of last resort, it only makes sense to ask them to pay their fare share. A going rate for a hotel room is close to $80 a day on the low end these days and often times you don't even get free breakfast. $25 a day for three squares, a cot, a/c and cable tv, doesn't seem unfair really. I doubt that's even the entire cost I'm sure taxpayers foot the rest.

[Speaker to Animals]

In most cases, fathers locked for child support are there because they can't afford the onerous child support awards. If the state can get the money, they will, so if dad is getting locked up, it's because they manufactured a debt he cannot realistically pay. Now this county wants to slap even more manufactured debt onto their lives.

This is why male suicide rates are climbing.

[Speaker to Animals]

Oh, and child support is a business for the state too. They get a percentage cut from the child support payments, so they kind of have a financial interests in destroying families and alienating fathers from children.

I wouldn't use fathers trapped in that system as an example of why people deserve further enslavement.

If anybody deserves enslavement, it's these judges.

[TheReal_ND]

I hardly blame the father that has to pay excessive amounts of money to the state so the mother can get benefits and remain single. But if this were a question of fairness, technically it is more fair for the father to bear the brunt of the cost of this transaction as opposed to the tax payers at large.