Our statewide investigation analyzes policies at 75 facilities representing 74 counties across Ohio. More than half of jails, 40 of the 75, charge people for their incarceration through a booking fee, a daily fee, or both. Ohioans are getting billed up to $66.09 a day to be in jail.
Yep! And (not to downplay the struggles of being a working class person with a mortgage but) you at least have the privilege of, y’know, not being in prison so you can get a job to pay off said debt as time goes on.
These guys just get dumped out of prison only to immediately be saddled with that ruinous financial burden.
Here is one act that wrote it into law. 😒 I wish it would name and shame the people and parties that voted for this so we could learn from those mistakes.
edit: idk why people are downvoting this i meant this kindly as an answer to your question 😭
I don’t really understand your point but I do agree with everything you said.
I just think if we could see exactly which members of the 82nd Michigan legislature in 1984 passed the act and who donated to them we could have a better idea of who got us here today, thereby better answering the question above.
That’s probably a matter of public record somewhere but I don’t have the experience to find it
As of October, the FRA has recorded 742 incident reports for train derailments in 2023. Additionally, railroads reported 59 collisions, 12 fires, and 138 highway-rail-crossing incidents, which could include cars or any other vehicles or people at the crossing site.
Since 1975, an average of 2,808 trains have derailed each year, with a peak of 9,400 derailments in 1978.
358 deaths due to crashes*, not the same as crashes themselves as multiple can die per crash
i came into this conversation with a light (pedantic) heart and an open mind. i am still willing to he corrected but cussing me out does nothing buddy.
*Not equating the total violence between the situations of course. It’s just important to label oppressive and non-representative regimes what they are, even when they happen to reside in the US.
Definitely a significant part of it, but like everything it’s not 100% of the story of course, low incomes and mental health being other primary factors.
I agree—but unless I am mistaken Florida is far from the only state to have sunshine laws. Hence why I think it’s important to note that a confluence of factors are involved, not just mental health either but also climate (hot temperatures make people more aggressive), natural disaster, limited access to drug abuse treatment, voter suppression, low income and similar. :)
there is certainly a gray area, yes. that said, im so fucking done with the “lol, let them drown” memes.
edit: telling on yourselves with the downvotes. yes we need to laugh, but yall need to look up the difference between punching up and punching down. literally lesson one of any valid political humor.
Insane that US Lemmings see this and downvote. They are more than willing to admit that Russia elections can be flawed and undemocratic but as soon as someone points out the fascist voter suppression and propaganda machine going on back home it’s willful blindness because how dare we be critical of the holy holy US.
Normalization is a known thing when studying society. Memes that normalize dismissal and othering of low-income, underprivileged Americans are a symptom and perpetuator of real classist mindsets that lead to material actions that perpetuate inequality.
A parallel thing is the same reason r-slur jokes for the mentally disabled are frowned upon now. If you normalize joking about a vulnerable population it often tends toward also doing bad things toward that same group.
And the neat thing is that the opposite effect also applies. Going back to the r-slur example, encouraging people to consider against whome their jokes were about also did its part to make people more considerate about that population in general, and we see that today with a lot more acceptance of neurodivergence.
Tldr: “Punching down” jokes usually end up being on the wrong side of history and are only funny to the point that it is socially acceptable to ignore that vulnerable population’s ongoing struggles at any given. Right now it is very socially acceptable to ignore the struggles of low income southern America, so the jokes follow suit.
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*Not equating the total violence between the situations of course. It’s just important to label oppressive and non-representative regimes what they are, even when they happen to reside in the US.
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