Friday, February 27, 2004
 
A Stay at the Compulsory Resort

Just in time to take advantage of the new jail-term-for-illegal-parking described below, St. Charles, Missouri, has decided it's going to send a bill to lodgers in its Compulsory Resort, previously known as the city jail:
    The County Council voted Tuesday night to require such inmates to set up installment repayment plans within six months after they get out of jail. Failure to do so could spur the county to seize and sell the ex-offenders' property to get some money back.
So after someone gets out of jail, after having his or her income interrupted, possibly losing a job if he or she had one, and making the next job more difficult to get, the lovely city will send a bill which might lead them to suing and seizing property--whatever's left after the fines for the offense, that is. You city legislators have an interesting theory of reintegration and recidivism-prevention you have there, sirs.

Perhaps we should quote the article more fully:
    The County Council voted Tuesday night to require such inmates to set up installment repayment plans within six months after they get out of jail. Failure to do so could spur the county to seize and sell the ex-offenders' property to get some money back.

    The council also passed a pay increase for council members elected later this year and a bill requiring council approval for naming or renaming most county buildings.
Policy made by a cash-hungry government makes awfully poor government of the government, by the government, and for the government. Fellows, you think police speeding ticket quotas suck? Wait until you're slapped with a six month sentence at a double-occupancy government facility because the County Commission on Revenue's assistant commissioner needs an office redecoration.

- posted by Brian J. @ 5:38 AM
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