Quote:There's 3 situations that play out here:

 

Driver 1 get's a citation he pays the fine transaction is over

Driver 2 get's a citation he can't pay the fine it's to much, his license is suspended until he can pay the fine and the additional fee's that the DMV will add on. If he's caught driving he can be arrested and have even more fines.

Driver 3 get's a citation he can't pay the fine its to much, big evil private company offers to pay the fine upfront and the driver will keep his license and pay the money back to the company plus fee's for the service.

 

Tell me how the private company is the source of evil in that situation?

 

Someone didn't read the article.

 

Driver 1 gets a citation.  He pays the fine.  Transaction is over.

 

Driver 2 gets a citation.  He can't pay the fine, so the court hands it over to a private probation company, who then charges a fee for an electronic tracking device, and starts charging a monthly fee.  All money goes toward paying down that fee, until that fee is gone.  The fee keeps going up, the man can't pay, and eventually loses his license.

 

Driver 3 gets a citation.  Can't pay the fine, so the exact same thing happens to him as it did Driver 2.


Heck here's another story:


 

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Cleveland’s troubles began in 2008, when a police roadblock went up in her neighborhood. She soon received several tickets for driving without insurance and without a license. “I knew it was wrong,” she told me, but she had to take her son to school and to travel to work. When she was unable to pay her fines, a judge sentenced her to two years of probation with Judicial Correction Services, a for-profit company; she would owe J.C.S. the sum of two hundred dollars a month, with forty of it going toward a “supervision” fee. Cleveland considered the arrangement a reprieve.


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<p style="font-family:'adobe-caslon-pro', Times, Georgia, serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);">The first year, Cleveland regularly reported to the J.C.S. office with cash in her purse, whatever she could put together, handing it to a woman in a crisp collared shirt, who she assumed was working for the state. But she quickly fell behind on payments, in part because her weekly cash deliveries sometimes went solely to covering the company’s supervision fee. She had lost her full-time day-care job the previous winter, after the local Hyundai plant cut workers’ hours, and employees stopped dropping their kids off each morning. Cleveland was broke. Instead of hiring someone to fix the holes in her bedroom walls, caused by shifting prairie soil beneath the house’s foundation, she stuffed towels in the cracks to keep out the cold. In early 2012, she turned over nearly all her income-tax rebate—some two thousand dollars—to J.C.S. But by that summer her total court costs and fines had soared from hundreds of dollars incurred by the initial tickets to $4,713, including more than a thousand dollars in private-probation fees.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/0...f-jail-inc

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