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AlVic40117560_ t1_j8ubxf1 wrote

Reply to comment by toss_it_out_tomorrow in 2 suspects charged with flipping car during Philly Super Bowl block party by toss_it_out_tomorrow

What would you call forcing people to perform labor? Just because it’s not as bad as it was in the past, doesn’t mean there are still improvements to be made. I totally agree that they should have to pay damages, but doing 200 hours of community service? Or what? They get put in jail? Call it what you want, but it certainly doesn’t sound like not slavery.

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toss_it_out_tomorrow OP t1_j8ud0kj wrote

>but doing 200 hours of community service? Or what? They get put in jail?

YES. You don't go trashing a city, flipping cars that people use their hard earned money to buy so that they can go to work and school, destroying the streets with trash, piss, shit, and vomit, beer cans, bottles, etc... and just get yelled at by a judge and fined. You make people regret what they did by having them CLEAN UP THEIR MESS OR GO TO JAIL. If they don't like it, then they should not have done it.

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pineapple-pumpkin t1_j8uuo6s wrote

Yup. I got a stupid underage drinking charge the day before my 21st birthday. I had a choice to do community service or a harsher punishment. I chose community service in the college town. That is much different from "chain gangs" that are forced labor for inmates.

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toss_it_out_tomorrow OP t1_j8vb95m wrote

If I ever found myself in that position and given the choice, I would pick up trash along a highway before I sat in a jail

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bierdimpfe t1_j8uiotr wrote

>What would you call forcing people to perform labor?

In this context? I call it partial restitution

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PhillyPanda t1_j8v1i4i wrote

You’re not usually forcing people to perform labor. It’s usually you choose to perform community service in lieu of a jail sentence. If you don’t fulfill the conditions of your deal, you serve your sentence. If you don’t actively choose community service, you serve a sentence.

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