Quote:First the issue with a private company assessing a fee for a monitoring bracelet this is because he failed to pay the fine after committing theft. You claim we should either extend his ability to pay, forgive his debt, or offer him a lesser penalty. To me that is ludicrous your suggesting a system that rewards bad behavior with lesser penalty because of financial status. Secondly the private company using a monitoring bracelet is being contracted to manage a citizen because they have already violated the law. In the real world when a citizen violates the law ( I'm not even discussing if the law should exist here) they face penalties, those penalties are either collected and executed by the state or subcontracted to third parties. At this point said citizen isn't an innocent victim they are paying for the violation of law. You say prison should be avoided well the monitoring bracelet is the alternative. This guy then continues to not pay the fines this is AFTER he committed a crime, failed to pay the fine, failed to pay the fee for monitoring in substitution of jail time, and then failed to pay the fees for an extended period of time. That's four strikes and your surprised he goes to jail after that?