Comment on Why don't county jails open up their free bed space in times of severe cold and severe heat to the homeless and others and just give them their own cell? And can leave whenever.

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teyrnon@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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.

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