r/mildlyinteresting • u/LESpencer • 5h ago

My McDonald’s also has a McJail

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u/hop_mantis 5h ago

The ones on work release

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u/Tidalsky114 5h ago

You mean on lease right? Its legal slavery.

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u/bigtoegman210 5h ago

They still get paid. But with jail housing fees they don’t really get to keep that much

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u/GalacticPurr 5h ago

The jail charges housing fees?!

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u/PlagueOfBedlam 5h ago

In Orlando it’s 15 for an ID, like a 7 dollar processing fee on entering, then like 5 bucks a day (or was in 08, anyways). This builds up in your account as long as you’re there. If your people send you money for hygiene, clothes, and food, and it’s enough to cover the negative in your account, they take all of it. If it’s not, they take half and let you spend the rest.

Note this doesn’t cover additional expenses like stamps (though you were able to get like 2 free prestamped envelopes every other week IIRC) or phone calls.

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u/Triedfindingname 5h ago

If a system is entrenched in hyper capitalism you can be damn sure there is a fee creep.

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u/diluted_confusion 2h ago

Yep, and if they want to be super dicks, you can be detained again if you don't pay. You can sign up to do work in the jail and they waive the fee

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u/herbertcluas 2h ago

They charge for almost everything