Louisiana Law Gives Judges a Financial Incentive to Set High Bail and Secure Convictions

https://www.typeinvestigations.org/investigation/2024/01/31/louisiana-judges-financial-incentives-bail-convictions/

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EdibleFriend@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 2y (2 replies)

WHAT THE FUCK

DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 2y (1 reply)

For profit criminal justice system?

The only thing this garbage ensures is more corruption and abuses of authority.

EdibleFriend@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 2y

I played on a GTARP server where, for a while, the cops got paid per arrest. People complained about the obvious reason why this was a bad idea so the devs removed that system after a few weeks.

That fucking server was ran better than Louisiana.

xhieron@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y (2 replies)

A solution to this problem exists.

lemmyman@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Eat the judges?

NatakuNox@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

Only as an appetizer. For profit Prison CEOs as the main course.

Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y

Corruption isn't a bug. It's a feature.

EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website · 7 pts · 2y
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brothershamus@kbin.social · 7 pts · 2y

Still running on Jim Crow laws eh. Wow. Mind, uh, blown or whatever.

Maybe we can force all the judges and state reps to live in cancer alley?

RotatingParts@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 2y

Remember when you read things like this that they are probably happen much more often and in more places than we will ever know. The entire governmental system is fucked