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anonymouspoliticker t1_j6idt16 wrote

Reply to comment by PoorGuyCrypto in Judge rejects motion to detain Pittsburgh activist over Facebook posts by Intelligent_Ship_431

None of those are criminalizing being broke as they are all only applicable to people duly convicted by their peers. Criminalizing being broke would be like charging money for a public defender (but they are free). They owe a debt to society in a similar way that someone who parks in a fire line and gets ticketed does.

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PoorGuyCrypto t1_j6ifnbv wrote

Fines and tickets are one-time fees based directly on the violation.

Charging someone a monthly "monitoring fee" in a system where people convicted of a crime can only get the lowest-paying jobs is completely immoral.

Charging them with further crimes for their inability to pay those monitoring fees is disgusting.

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