I’m against piling on court fees and charges for people convicted of crimes when those costs aren’t directly part of the sentencing fine for the crime. It can further criminalize lower income people, who can’t pay the fines and end up in more trouble, and it makes it tougher for those on the margins to rehabilitate.
I have to admit though it never occurred to me that I would have to state opposition to charging fees to the victims of crimes. Of course, when you’re facing an ideology that’s all about getting rid of government and privatizing, these things start to make a perverse sense - even if they’re terribly wrong.
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