Bill passed by Republican-dominated state senate may exacerbate deadly overcrowding in Fulton county jail

  • originalucifer
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    195 months ago

    why does this sound like a constitutional problem? can they tell people what to do with their money?

    no question its pure evil.

    • @lingh0e
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      75 months ago

      can they tell people what to do with their money?

      I mean… yeah.

    • @[email protected]
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      -35 months ago

      They’re not banning people from providing money for bail, they’re banning people from collecting money to pay bail without their local sheriff’s permission. That’s broadly legal for the same reason it’s legal to have a law against fraud, it’s just shitty behaviour.

      • originalucifer
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        75 months ago

        seems weird a sherriff can tell a bunch of people how they can collect money considering they arent doing it illegally.

        i can see scrutinizing illegal sources of cash, but making a legal path suddenly illegal only for the purposes of bail sounds untenable.