It's called "pay-to-stay", charging inmates for their prison stay, like a hotel they were forced to book. Florida law says that cost, $50 a day, is based on the person's sentence. Even if they are released early, paying for a cell they no longer occupy, and regardless of their ability to pay.
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@#3 ...The cruelty is the point. ...
Yup.
... Long before the Trump administration implemented its "zero tolerance" immigration enforcement policy in 2018, it was already separating children from their parents as part of a "pilot program" conducted in the El Paso, Texas, area and along other parts of the border.
Under the El Paso program, begun in mid-2017, adults who crossed the border without permission -- a misdemeanor for a first-time offender -- were detained and criminally charged. No exceptions were made for parents arriving with young children. The children were taken from them, and parents were unable to track or reunite with their children because the government failed to create a system to facilitate reunification. By late 2017, the government was separating families along the length of the U.S.-Mexico border, including families arriving through official ports of entry. ...
Trump administration barring tours of migrant detention centers, Democrats say (2019)
www.reuters.com
... Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday said the Trump administration is blocking investigators from touring immigrant detention facilities nationwide after recent visits revealed what they called "serious ongoing problems" concerning how detainees are being treated. ...
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Spoiled food, filthy conditions: Migrant children in US reveal
www.dailysabah.com
... The U.S.' human rights obligations do not seem to apply to immigrant children, who suffer from rotten food, lack of clothes and crowded living conditions at detention centers managing their care, leading to a rise in depression among them ...
... after being separated from their parents....
"It will be on her credit history, it will make it difficult for her to get a job, for her to get housing, to buy a car, or do anything else that she needs to do, to be able to return to society," Foster told the I-Team. "They have a lien attached to anything you get in life." Knee-capping her for the rest of her life.
In addition, I believe this unpaid bill also prevents former prisoners from voting. 23.3% of Black voters, 31% of Black men, in Florida cannot vote because of felony disenfranchisement. www.hrw.org en.wikipedia.org So this law will not be going anywhere so long as the GOP is calling the shots in Florida. Which means it's up to the voters to replace them. Oh wait, they can't, because almost 6% of them have been disenfranchised.
I guess it'll be up to SCOTUS to fix this. Which should happen right after Jill Stein 2024!
www.leg.state.fl.us
Here is the relevant statute. According to statute, the lien expires after 3 years, does take the ability to pay into acccount and applies only to the days/months actually incarcerated. So Shelby's circumstances do not seem to apply here, as she aleges she had been out of prison for 7 + years before she was notified of this lien. Either a mistake was made by the prison system, or Shelby's story isn't being accurately reported.
According to statute, the lien expires after 3 years, does take the ability to pay into acccount and applies only to the days/months actually incarcerated.
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You Lie.
"Damages shall be based upon the length of the sentence imposed by the court at the time of sentencing."
www.flsenate.gov
"Employment is optional in Florida, inmates are not forced to work."
Hahahaha! You Lie.
Prisoners are forced to work. In at least some instances, that includes those who have medical issues. Those who don't go out with their squads receive a disciplinary report, which can lead to up to 60 days in confinement and the loss of time earned off their sentences. Florida corrections officers write an average of 1,750 disciplinary reports per year for "refusing to work." It's not readily apparent how many of those were for people on the work squads.
stories.usatodaynetwork.com
"because it sought to outlaw things Florida doesn't do anyway, forced labor and unpaid labor"
Holy ----. What is with the relentless lying. Florida does both of those things.
Aren't you supposed to be black? I can't imagine a black person doesn't know these things to be true!
With a few rare exceptions, regular prison jobs are still unpaid in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, and Texas.
www.prisonpolicy.org
A century later, unpaid prison labor continues to power Florida
stories.usatodaynetwork.com
As other states ban unpaid 'slave' prison labor, lawmakers drop plans to tackle issue in Florida
www.wlrn.org
The secret history of Florida prison labor
thenewtropic.com
LOL all you want. Avoidance is what we've come to expect from Republicans, because Republicans don't want to acknowledge American history is steeped in racism.
Florida has many examples:
The birth of the Florida prison system -- unlike most in the U.S. -- came after the Civil War in 1868. Shortly after, the state legislature "arranged to offset the new prison's expenses with the returns of the labor of its prisoners," according to One Dies, Get Another: Convict Leasing in the American South. Labor that would be performed both inside and outside the prison's walls.
Florida, always rapidly developing since its acquisition, was in dire need of laborers. So the state created new ways to capitalize on the disenfranchised in order to keep up with the pace of growth, satisfying not only the labor demands of development, but also the moral demands of racism. In 1877, Florida's Governor George Franklin Drew codified the convict leasing system, whereby prisoners were leased out to private entities and industries. As Douglas Blackmon notes in his Pulitzer Prize"winning book Slavery by Another Name, convict leasing was a method undertaken by the Southern States to replace the economic setup of slavery. The convict leasing system was especially harsh in Florida, where convicts worked long days mining phosphate and turpentine, clearing out tropical landscapes, and laying roads in hellish temperatures without adequate food, water, or shelter. They were subjected to brutal punishment not unlike the cruelties performed on slaves " including whipping, solitary confinement, and torture.
Convict leasing grew into a wide network of sheriffs, wardens, and state officials who traded in contracts for prisoner labor. As Blackmon puts it, "By 1900, the South's judicial system had been wholly reconfigured to make one of its primary purposes the coercion of African Americans to comply with the social customs and labor demands of whites." In Florida, "companies that benefited from the system gave tacit and direct support for the social and legal barriers aimed against the black citizens," according to the World Digital Library, a project created by the U.S. Library of Congress.
thenewtropic.com
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