‘Do Prison Inmates Have To Pay For Rent Or Mortgage?’: Tom Cotton Rapid-Fire Questions Witnesses
At today’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) questioned Jennifer Turner, Principal Human Rights …
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"Harmony in Every Heartbeat
if i were in jail, i’d be happy to have something to do
There is one slight lie.. or blatant omission.
Florida's "pay to stay"-law allows the state to charge inmates $50 a day for their prison sentence months, even years beyond their release date
If there are all these benefits associated with prison labor allowing for the inmate population to now possess the skillset needed in order to become gainfully employed once released then why is there such a high rate of recidivism amongst this same prison population once they've re – entered mainstream society?
The Democrats—The best friends a criminal will ever have.
Excuse me. They committed crimes.
If there is no labor then how do you serve hard labor sentence?
We need to stop pretending we just have different opinions. Some factions were not supposed to have a vote. If you think that's shocking, you don't know history, you don't know the Founders' or classical liberals' words, etc.
Not all cultures are equal, and the Ds have split our generally good culture into two main parts, a new awful one and one trying to preserve the true and good principles of the past (but still imperfect, and worse, partially infected by the new part: compare the Founders on what 1A was for to not just the Ds but the Rs or even libertarians; the Founders were right and those three are not).
well considering how corrupt the justice system is… it's not unbelieveable to think that innocent people go to jail and are screwed with background checks for jobs and moving into condos and apartments… considering the state of inflation.
WOMAN OUT OF POLITICS!! REPEAL A19 and Defund ACLU
GIVEME ABREAL
Free rent, free food, free medical, free education. How do they repay anything to society by receiving so much free stuff on our dime. Sounds like they are incurring more debts.
Time to repeal the 19th
Based on FY 2021 data, the average annual COIF for a Federal inmate housed in a Bureau or non-Bureau facility in FY 2021 was $43,836 ($120.10 per day). The average annual COIF for a Federal inmate housed in a Residential Reentry Center for FY 2021 was $37,012 ($101.40 per day) per Department of Justice. Bureau of Prisons.Sep 22, 2023
Do those of you that support prison slave labor think the prisoners are doing work to benefit the public? They are working for private businesses to boost their bottom lines, and subsequently taking jobs away from those not imprisoned, at the cost of holding people ( often unjustly (such as disproportionate sentencing)) within custody. Prison slave labor is just another incentive to place, and keep, people in prisons. Where crime does not exist, or does not exist in high enough numbers, new "crimes" not based upon actual trespass, but instead broad technicalities, will be introduced, and harsher penalties imposed, ensuring supply of resource into the system of profit.
You gonna be working hard
Cotton doesn't take any nonsense
She says they are lucrative. That’s a lie.
It’s prison, not vacation
PRISON OFFICER-I'm so tired, so I'm going to take a prisoner home tonight to service my wife PRISON GOVERNOR-ok,just sign right there,choose one (or two)and I'll see you tomorrow 😂
"Don't pay for rent or mortgage"? Er, have they not seen the articles where people are BILLED tens of thousands for their incarceration? I am OK with paying them less than minimum wage as long as they follow their own narrative. Do NOT charge them for their time behind bars. You cannot get it both ways.
Bless her heart!
Progressives proving their insanity … again.
"it allowed for the reincarceration of Black men on specious charges." right, you have to make up charges in order to put them in jail because they NEVER commit real crimes…
Most jobs in prisons are privileges that the inmates want, regardless of pay. Gives them an escape from the monotony of prison life.
They'd rather get up and go to work every day than just sit around doing nothing, or getting caught up in gangs and prison politics.
The 13th Amendment is designed for corporations to aquire FREE labor taking jobs from civilians. This is why there are so many innocent people in prison waiting 5-10 years for a simple trial for a minor misdemeanor. The 13th Amendment is redesigned slavery. This is also why the United States has Privately Owned Prisons, it's a very lucrative business, Law Enforcement the Judicial System and the Prisons all work cohesively together all getting monetary kick backs as long as the prisons stay FULL with working bodies! ⛓️
Considering that they leave the prison with an ungodly debt it seems more kind to let them work it off as they go. Oh ya. As long as you owe your parole never ends. Total control.
You are forcing MY labor to support them.
** ** AN ENTIRE INDUSTRY of people depend on the existence of crime for their livelihoods. Do prisoners pay rent? Yes, unjust PAY TO STAY FEES in many places of confinement. Do they pay for food, etc. YES, if they can afford to, because what the state provides is unsatisfactory by itself. Should they have to pay? NO. If the state deems such an offense worthy to deprive a person their freedom, and death to be unwarranted, then the cost to do so is upon those imposing the custody, AND it should be done so humanely ( which IT IS NOT ) (quite frankly, the prison system is a violation of the 8th amendment, but too many people depend on it, and use it as a tool of political power. and so will not admit to this). LAW DOES NOT EQUATE TO GOOD JUST OR LOGICAL.
** ** AN ENTIRE INDUSTRY of people depend on the existence of crime for their livelihoods. Where it does not exist, or does not exist in high enough numbers, new "crimes" will be created, not based upon actual trespass, but instead unjust, broad reaching state dictated technicalities, and or harsher penalties imposed. This ensures resource ( unforunate people ) into a system show operators depend on the existence of crime for their life blood; serving not only as a way to justify their unwarranted positions, by essentially manipulated "crime" statistics, but also to maintain a population fearful of crime, ready and eager to give up their more and more of their freedom in the name of "safety and security" and or "the children" when the actual goal is always more, unwarranted, control for a few. PRISON SLAVERY ( I mean "labor") is a purposefully allowed part of this unjust system of ty ranny. The entire system needs revision, towards freedom, but instead we always see the opposite; more laws for this, more laws for that, because the ruling tyrants will never willingly relinquish the power over the populace which they so enjoy.
BEING LAW DOES NOT EQUATE TO GOOD JUST OR LOGICAL. In fact, it is usually the opposite.
What people don’t get is the prisons are private corporations. They use the prison labor as a massive advantage to bid against other companies on government contracts. Who’s bid is going to be lower? The prisons corporations are also lobbying to pass laws that lead to more incarceration. It’s a racket.
Judge sentences me. I’m doing my time how I wanna. Waddah ya gunna do? Throw me in prison?
Another do-gooder, not thinking things through!
Nice, the prisoners have it better than this 57 yr old disabled Veteran. 😡
I dont or cant afford 3 squares or a cot, cable, gym equipment/ membership and have had to work 2 plus jobs to afford gasoline and food thanks to FJB inflationary policies. My loans were not covered by Briben or my utilities by BuyDum with i cant afford anymore. 😡 😡 😡
who is the head bobbing mule behind her. He looks like PVT. Pyle
You're in jail, it's not a vacation. Send them to work so they will learn a trade for when they get out.
That smiling jolly faced guy is really enjoying these comical answers
Inmates should be responsible for thier own cost of living, simple as… we have enough tips of jobs that can be done remote, so there is no reason they shouldn't be required to work
Many of them still have families and kids to feed so yes they do pay rent and mortgages and food and anything else their families need.
It's not Forced Labor.. They are given the opportunity to work and earn money in Prison. As most these Prisoners have to pay restitution once they leave or if they ever leave.. It's a way to pay the victims back..
Its hilarious that he thinks that those people work pays for their expenses and that relieve tax payers somehow. All taxpayers pay taxes, which include the maintenance of prisons. The difference between prisons around the world and those in the US is that the work of prisoners around the world generates revenues for the state treasury, which reduces the cost of maintaining prisons. Meanwhile, in the US, prisons are privately owned. So taxpayers keep the prison going. And the owner of these prisoners takes money for the work of these prisoners.
This is the definition of slavery. The solution to the problem is not to remove work from prisons. Just removing the possibility of privatizing labor camps… oh, sorry, prisons.
What a bunch of useless words
I can see the pros and cons of such a system, at the end of the day it should be down to choice, it should not be forced
Is anyone listening to these people? No wonder our country is going to hell in a hand basket.