I know for a fact one of the cities in my area uses the people who are in the city jail for unpaid fines. They get $50 off their fine… by doing all the labor of the jail, like washing the floor, cooking the food, and yes, washing the cop cars.
Yeah, I think they get away with it because it’s voluntary, and (more importantly) no one (with power) cares about prisoners. If you had to sit in jail for six days, but could get out in four by doing the extra work, it might be worth it. It also gets you out of the cells, I guess.
In my experience, they might not clean their own vehicles. They get people serving community service hours for petty crimes to do it for them.
Or so I’m told.
I know for a fact one of the cities in my area uses the people who are in the city jail for unpaid fines. They get $50 off their fine… by doing all the labor of the jail, like washing the floor, cooking the food, and yes, washing the cop cars.
Indentured servitude. Nice!
Got to love how the 13th amendment made an exception for prisoners.
Yeah, I think they get away with it because it’s voluntary, and (more importantly) no one (with power) cares about prisoners. If you had to sit in jail for six days, but could get out in four by doing the extra work, it might be worth it. It also gets you out of the cells, I guess.
We had to to clean and detail courthouse workers’ (judges, DA, etc) personal vehicles for community service as children.