WHAT THE F? former prisoners have to reimburse the cost of their jail stay? $249 per day?

[Hortensis]

10. A simple bankruptcy procedure should be allowed to abandon

unpayable, or overly burdensome debt. Some people are able to pay, and I have no real problem with states and counties that choose to at least provisionally require convicted criminals to pay for all or more usually part of their incarceration expense -- just as long as it's done right by a just and sensible society committed to rehabilitation into society as the primary goal.

The problem's in that last, of course, as it always tends to be with "the people's" disposition of some of their least-valued members. And after 40 years of increasingly morally bankrupt political domination by anti-government, anti-tax, anti-regulation, very punitive "Republicans,"... Beyond appalling.

First do no harm.