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Re:South Korea: The only middle power of its kind by entropicdrifter on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @02:17PM (#28052307)
Well, in the cases of Japan and SK, there is the issue of elderly people beginning to commit crimes on a regular basis in recent years because prison is free and they can't afford a retirement home.
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Re:South Korea: The only middle power of its kind by CamTin on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @04:40PM (#28053894)
The American solution to this problem is just to charge people for the expense of being arrested and jailed: https://www.themarshallproject.org/records/2091-jail-fees
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