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The Poor as Outcasts; Charging Prisoners Promotes Mass Incarceration
Sunday, June 7, 2015 17:45
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Exile on Main Street. The building of a wall to keep the poor out of the middle class is facilitated by mass incarceration and its “collateral consequences,” which brand those convicted of felonies as permanent outcasts.
Charging Prisoners Perpetuates Mass Incarceration. At least a few localities in nearly every state in the country authorize “pay-to-stay” fees on prisoners for everything from medical costs, to food, to clothes. These fees are difficult for the often indigent prisoners and their families to pay, and can make successful reentry into society near impossible for some.
