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Roy Rolling

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1. Complex Issue

Reply to mysteryowl (Original post)

Wed Oct 16, 2019, 08:06 AM

Oct 2019

Community service is a good way to pay fines if you can’t afford it. But like everything else, greedy businesspeople demand a cut so that the service amounts to slave wages for the offender, and a gigantic profit for the administrators/businesses involved.

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'Work or go to jail': how LA courts force thousands to do unpaid labor [View all] mysteryowl Oct 2019 OP

Complex Issue Roy Rolling Oct 2019 #1

doing work, in a community service program is much better than being in jail, we are beachbumbob Oct 2019 #2

Not 'unpaid labor", paying YOUR debt for whatever you did oldsoftie Oct 2019 #3

Bad headline LogicFirst Oct 2019 #4

If the work is being done to pay a debt for a fine for example how is this wrong? cstanleytech Oct 2019 #5

Several years ago the husband of an associate in L.A. was busted on his third DUI. He gladly took Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2019 #6