Those are sunk costs. Inmates don’t get forced to pay their jail boarding fees, it gets sent to collections, next to no one pays those. Other court ordered costs you go to jail for not paying but not room and board costs for jail, not in my state or others I’m familiar with.
You think cleaning beds, lighting the rooms, processing people, and general upkeep is free?
Why saddle inmates with more debt when they can saddle more people with debt.
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Patnou@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Then have other inmates do the cleaning of cells/dorms and general upkeep around here we call them 301’s. We have a county jail that can fit 500 people but has only ever had about 110 max in there. Seems like a waste of space.