• ZeroCoolOP
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    4 months ago

    Yeah, that’s how prison works. Most people consider it a small price to pay to keep murderers off the streets.

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      4 months ago

      Is the government able to take possession of his house/land and personal property, sell it and use that to help fund his incarceration? Is that a thing?

      Before I get downvoted to oblivion, I’m not saying they SHOULD. I’m just asking if that’s something they do. Maybe I should have worded it better.

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        Is the government able to take possession of his house/land and personal property, sell it and use that to help fund his incarceration? Is that a thing?

        Yeah, a gateway to even more corruption. We already have Civil Asset Forfeiture, and it’s abused exactly how you think it would be. In all but a few cases, the money goes to law enforcement (local or otherwise). It’s basically legalized theft, though some states have higher thresholds than others.

        Emphases mine:

        In the United States, civil forfeiture (also called civil asset forfeiture or civil judicial forfeiture)[1] is a process in which law enforcement officers take assets from people who are suspected of involvement with crime or illegal activity without necessarily charging the owners with wrongdoing.

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        4 months ago

        I don’t know the rules in USA but I’d assume only in case of debt they are not able to pay after some time (years, likely). This could be fines or legal fees

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        His assets will be sold off to pay the victims family and to cover the trauma the other passengers received from the crime.

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      3 months ago

      Like good healthcare. Even good prison food is cheaper due to economies of scale.

      We could feed way more homeless with some properly consolidated soup kitchens attached to gov bed-spaces.