This is really over the top.

[Boxlicker101]

And it's probably illegal, since the people are there against their wills.

http://gmy.news.yahoo.com/v/13785636

 

[3113]

And it's probably illegal, since the people are there against their wills.

http://gmy.news.yahoo.com/v/13785636

How 19th century! We're back to the days when people in prison had to pay or starve. Nice to know that everything old is new again...

 

[R. Richard]

The situation is probably a great deal better than it reads.

There's no point in trying to collect $60 per day from some guy who's in for armed robbery and whose assets arre primarily hanging on his back. However, the slick boy who defrauded people out of their retirement funds may find that the prison people now have liens on his Mercedes, his house and have seized his bank/stock accounts.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

The situation is probably a great deal better than it reads.

There's no point in trying to collect $60 per day from some guy who's in for armed robbery and whose assets arre primarily hanging on his back. However, the slick boy who defrauded people out of their retirement funds may find that the prison people now have liens on his Mercedes, his house and have seized his bank/stock accounts.

Personally, I can't help but approve under those circumstances. Would that the same thing could be done to Madoff. Let me see, that will be a ham on rye @ $275,000, fries @ $150,000, a Coke @ $79,000 . . . oh, you wanted a giant? That will $300,000! Nice lunch, dude.

 

[Safe_Bet]

I'm actually pretty okay with it, as long as it's on a sliding scale, based upon ability to pay, and spousal and child support is taken out first.

 

[freshface]

The situation is probably a great deal better than it reads.

There's no point in trying to collect $60 per day from some guy who's in for armed robbery and whose assets arre primarily hanging on his back. However, the slick boy who defrauded people out of their retirement funds may find that the prison people now have liens on his Mercedes, his house and have seized his bank/stock accounts.

The problem is that he used the Mercedes and house to pay for his defense team and the court is busy distributing his bank/stock accounts to the people he defrauded.