Comment on What is the safest way for a partially disabled person in the USA to use prison for food and shelter as an alternative to dying homeless in a gutter on a cold rainy night?

Today@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Exactly! Make sure it’s a felony otherwise you might be billed for every day you’re in jail. Plus, a good enough felony will get you to prison for a good long time. Basically, anything with “grand” in the front of it.

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  • Today@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You can end up paying room and board, mandatory counseling, classes, drug tests, etc. Plus phone calls are outrageously expensive. It’s a total racket.

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    • Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      How does that work if you don’t have money or just don’t? I mean what are they going do? Put you in jail?

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      • Droechai@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Take a piece of all future income until it’s paid off of you pass away. At least here you can personally bankrupt once in a life time and live on “lowest livable” amount of money for five years and then get the debts “forgiven” except those accrued during the five year period.

        It’s a hassle to apply and get granted though, usually not the privacy invasion invasion a recently released care to subject to

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  • bamfic@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Some joker robbed a US post office in my town a year or so ago. Federal felony.

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    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Is that the guy who demanded $1 from the teller and then just sat down to wait for the cops?

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      • bamfic@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        No he got away. Not sure if they ever caught him

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