In California, a Plan to Charge Inmates for Their Stay

[Peace Patriot]

18. What has happened to the accused's right to trial and appropriate sentencing?

Can a City Council or County Board of Supervisors add penalties to a person's sentence after judicial proceedings have ended, with the accused not only having no right to representation but not even being there, not even knowing that they are being stripped of their property and becoming, in effect, indentured slaves of the city or county?

This is insane. And this is the sort of abuse of power that leads to bloody revolutions.

I can't say it surprises me, from Riverside County--one of the most notoriously bad election systems in a country of the worst election systems ever devised (ES&S/Diebold 80% monopoly, all over the U.S., with voting machines run on their 'TRADE SECRET' code with virtually no audit/recount controls). Riverside County officials have been among the worst in adopting the corporate cultural of secrecy around vote counting. Now this--robbing helpless prisoners!--something out of the Middle Ages! Will flogging be next? Cutting off hands of thieves? Jailing of entire families in the "Poor House"?

Someone upthread says the state of Washington does this. I am appalled. But then, we are in the age of Diebold, when leaders even in progressive states like Wisconsin and Washington behave like fascist assholes or feel obliged to cater to fascist assholes.