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Feb 29

~ Olympic Coin of Philip II of Macedon.
Culture: Greek
Date: ca. 359-336 B.C.
Medium: Gold

so I heard this story on the radio yesterday:
and my immediate thought was “okay so if someone is acquitted the state is like ‘we shouldn’t have to cover the cost of their stay in the prison because they shouldn’t have been there in the first place” which is, of course, utterly fucked up.
but no… it’s worse than that…. it’s because pay-to-stay incarceration in the United States is a thing… as in it’s common practice for prison inmates to be charged for their stay in prison (https://truthout.org/articles/fighting-the-fees-that-force-prisoners-to-pay-for-their-incarceration/). This was news to me.
Fighting the Fees That Force Prisoners to Pay for Their Incarceration
''Pay-to-stay'' fees push the poor into debt.
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this is “we’re billing the guilty for their stay; the acquitted should have to pay us for their stay too”
so yeah not only does mass incarceration thrive off of prisoners’ free labor it also thrives off of prisons billing inmates like some sort of fucking Holiday Inn

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philosophybitmaps:

“It is not enough to be intelligent; you must also have the right character.” – Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom

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“Nothingness haunts being.” — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness (via philosophybits)

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sixpenceee:

Two Dutch politicians walking hand in hand to support a gay couple that were brutally attacked for doing the same thing.
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welcometoyouredoom:
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