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The US Supreme Court deemed it unconstitutional to throw someone in jail
for not being able to pay court fees or fines without asking them if they
can afford it first, but still, courts across the country continue to
imprison poor people for not paying fines. Then, even worse, those fines
grow with interest rate, as the people behind bars have no way to make any
money to pay down fines. The Resident discusses.
Yea, my son was pulled over they found a bowl of pot on him, they steal my
car and ask me for 800$ ransom for it, then they make him pay his fine in
person, we cannot call and use an atm card to pay, so we have drive in our
non existant car 20 miles to go pay it, on occaision we cannot get a ride
there in time, so what does the DUMB JUDGE SAY?…”WE WILL DOUBLE YOUR FINE
IF YOU ARE LATE”, HE IS DISABLED AND cannot work, so i have to pay, and
find a way to get there and i am also disabled… so now they punish me
as well as him and make impossible for either of us to comply B/C THEY
STOLE CAR, AND EXPECT AN OLD SICK WIDOW ON S.S., HELL I ONLY GET 700$ A
MONTH WTF DO THEY WANT…MY BLOOD TOO?! ….There is no justice in the
judicial system…all of this financial nightmare over one tiny bowl of
pot….PSSSSSS, thats me pissing on our judicial system! Plop! oohh they
got a little brown w/ it too!…assess! I HATE THIS SYTEM AND EVERYONE WHO
SUPPORTS THIS TYPE OF TYRANNY!
Its getting out of control friends please read your Bible and pray with me
Your voice is so annoying
USA doesn’t got a system like Finland, where fines are tied to income.
I have said it on other videos. Mark my words: THE DAY WILL COME WHEN IT
WILL BE A CRIME TO BE POOR OR HOMELESS.
Russian propaganda
This is stupid, our government is dumb
unconstitutional debtors prison , still goes on at the exspence of tax
payers STOP PUTTING POOR PEOPLE IN JAIL
The last time I watched one of her stories about the Vietnam War, there
were actually people who had no idea what it was. Then, that we lost it. I
almost smashed my laptop against the wall.
To all Americans who stucked up on the problem…> the solution is..1) fuck
less, or try to skip having more kids 2) Live on your own, one time in the
life 3) forget banks live with your monthly earnings ////that`s it / plain
and simple ///then you`ll see government will care about you ;)
US jailing people for being poor
I live in Colorado and can confirm. I was sued when I was 18 and unemployed
for something that happened when I was 16 (it was a bogus claim, don’t want
to get into details). I obviously couldn’t afford the $40 court fee having
no job at the time, and had spent my last money on gas just to get to court.
I told the court I couldn’t afford the court fees, so they gave me a
default judgement without even hearing the case and ordered me to pay up. I
just turned and walked out of the courtroom at that point, absolutely
disgusted, and haven’t looked back. Not sure what ever came of that case, I
was able to join the military a few years later without any problems (they
do massive background checks). I have no idea why the court never issued a
bench warrant. As far as I can tell, that case doesn’t show up on my credit
or police records. I got lucky.
#justice
the gov created a society where most ppl are forced to be poor and grossly
in debt and forced to commit certain crimes like stealing food, clothes,
squatting, to survive etc… then the gov arrests these ppl and throws them
in jail to use the ppl with jobs to pay high taxes based on the prisoner
count etc… the gov uses this extra money to line the politicians pockets
and the rich get richer and the poor get poorer and the arrested and become
slaves. just another reason why we need to enact our rights and enforce our
constitution by using the ammendments within it to overthrow this corrupt
and treasonous governmment immediately.
Yeah right. Show me a statute in any of the 50 states of America, or any
federal statute that reads “Poverty and debt is a crime”. Until then, shut
up you stupid bitch. Move to Russia.
Don’t forget this applies more widely to child support. There are men who
are forced to quit their jobs by arbitrary restraining orders their wives
attorney’s request just to help the wife win custody, who then get charged
child support based on their old income, miss their payments, get sent to
prison, then stay in prison because back payments keep adding up.
A man living a happy life can lose his home, kids, pet, vehicle, job, life,
and then his freedom in much of Canada and the US if his wife just gets
bored with the marriage and the attorney she pics happens to be the
aggressive type.
and the poor keep fighting the wars that keep them poor. What a circle.
its all about money for them. period. if you’ve ever been kidnapped by
police for an unpaid ticket (etc.), tossed in an overcrowded and flooding
cell, had them steal your car and ransom it back for hundreds of dollars,
and fed that 0-10% percent juice and boiled everything else, plus a piece
of fruit and theeeen forced to sleep on a cold floor for days or weeks on
end— you know it’s true. this system is horrible. and for a ticket???
worse part is how many other people you discover are in there for the same
bullshit. all races and professions. waiting it out in filth— just so you
can have the law tell you time served. now you can go home or to work (if
you still have your job). go catch real criminals! that’s what jail is for.
murderers, rapists, and the likes. Not sweet ol Miss Beatrice down the way
who can’t afford to pay for a fucking parking ticket.
I disagree. Americans allowed Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and their cohorts to
get away with the 9/11 Inside Job and now they allow Barry Soetoro the
illegal-alien-in-chief to squat in the White House doing whatever he
pleases. The Americans need to bend over and take the medicine for being so
utterly naive and stupid, even if that means years of prison time for the
taking of a single loaf of bread.
… so what your saying, it costs $70 a day to keep people in jail for
every $50 they owe. OK put them to work on chain gang to do $70 worth of
labor every day they are in…..problem solved
Just The Prison Industrial Complex doing it’s work … nothing more.
Debtors prison.
The system is set up for the benefit of privately run for profit systems
which weren’t mentioned in the report.
Washington state is the most fascist dicktastership this country has ever
seen , they also have the most crime and corruption amongst so-called law
enforcement in the country. Investigate this ,county prosecutors, Judges,
probation officers, and social workers own are majority share holders in
all the Rehab’s, treatment centers ,and the fake domestic violence
counciling classes that they force you to goto spending in the thousands,
the Rehab’s are so bad that if you miss one scheduled day that they keep
your money and make you pay all over again and restart your classes, the
same goes with domestic violence classes, they then hold these classes in
the middle of the day forcing you to miss work twice a week. In Washington
state the classification for domestic violence is just arguing with your
spouse or girlfriend or boy friend! If they show up because you yelled at
one another the take one person to jail, and usually its the man that goes
before the women because the man would rather go to jail instead of having
his spouse go. They know this and totally exploit this frivolous law in
order to make themselves rich. You’re labeled as a domestic abuser if you
tell the other person to fuck off or use swear words in your argument, they
threaten a person with 1year in jail just for arguing with their spouse,
this is how they extort the people. 99% of all people in jail or in
treatment are not physical abuser’s but they try to sell and promote it as
much as possible to keep their extortion racket going ,the commercials on
the tv are paid foe by these classes in which the judges and prosecution
owns.. You ask how do they get rich on a civil servants salary??????
But why is it when the government owes me money I can’t charge them 12%
interest?????
dont worry its only going to be worst
Most of the states that do that have a privatised jail system and the
contracts with them states say say the must have a certian prison
population rate or they gets charged… i.e. people get locked up for minor
thing.
How much worse does the US have to get before the public start a civil war!
Prison Industrial Complex. Simple explanation.
@ 2:50 “… this idiotic system of imprisoning people at an expense that is
more than the money that is owed.” … Jailed for stealing food? What is
this, Les Miserables? Roughly 15% of our citizens are living in poverty,
and prolonged poverty inevitably leads some to desperation and petty crime
~ we gotta do better to make sure people don’t fall through the cracks …
economically, it’d cost taxpayers less to build housing for such people and
provide food stamp assistance than it would to incarcerate them ~ limit
prisons to those that deserve jail sentences, violent criminals, grand
theft, etc …
there is a small group of frightened, weak minded racist white men and
women, who are trying to socially engineer humanity to suit their genetic
goals. im sure the rest of white america should be able to see this. in
order for things to change in america, this small group must be removed
from power completely, either peacefully or not, doesnt matter at this
point, cuz if people do not begin to move to take these people out, it is
going to viewed as a vote of support for these evil mean and women, by the
rest of america and the world, and if thats the case…..
Don’t commit crimes.
I go through red lights all the time.Well,not so much these days.But in the
days of misspent youth.You just have to be selective.Make sure no one’s
coming the other way..Duh.Check for pigs..Duh…And hazard a guess as to
whether it’s a red light camera.They’re quite often turned off. Haha,fuckin
idiots who want to follow rules all the time.
oh yeah this is the truth. I live in north america and I’ve been out of
work for 9 months, it doesn’t matter, child support, speeding ticket, and
household bills don’t stop coming in. they threw my ass in jail for missing
two payments. I called to tell them I just don’t have.it. now I’m behind on
my home owners taxes and they charging me 12 percent interest. I’ll never
get caught up. sometime’s you think about just using your life insurance so
u don’t leave your kids in debt.
Since when was shoplifting a “non-criminal offence”?
Too Much Government, but Human Nature calls for it.@_@
Only in Amerika
Oh, resident! Weren’t you lauding Agenda 21 a year or two back?
WOW just WOW! there are some pretty nasty asses in this world.. I can smell
one cooking right across the street!
No one is being forced and its not the Government its us PERIOD.
going to work everyday paying taxes,voting without doing extensive
background checks, discrimination, police officers,military knowing full
well what it does to the minds of people but we still insist on enlisting
ect… those are the things we sign up for our footwork supports the
system 100% its works because we allow it and as soon as a conspiracy
theorist say quit your jobs barter/trade learn to grown your own food no
one wants to here that and now that the shit has hit the fan everyone’s a
victim lmao
If it were about “paying for a sin” they could let you pick litter for a
few hours or something.
I Just Wish Everyone who let these things be known do something about the
fed System they all wanna talk about the fed system but never try to do
anything about the Corruption .