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    1. …in reply to @LIADatafield
      LIADatafield Sort of. In many cases (I’m going to emphasize that I don’t know if this was the case for CARES Act compassionate release) when someone is released to home confinement *before* the conclusion of their sentence they have to pay for their ankle monitor.
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    LIADatafield This isn’t “you’ve served your time, now you have to pay for this” it’s “you can serve your time at home as long as you pay for the monitoring service.”
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    1. …in reply to @SamTheGeek
      LIADatafield To be clear again, I think this is *also* unconscionable, and the release data shows that draconian incarceration of the type we practice in the US does not work — or at the very least, does not work better than the Scandinavian model.
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        LIADatafield But in a realistic sense, *if* we have a model where release is only “possible” when the person being released can pay, it’s not unreasonable to disallow inconsistent funding sources.
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          LIADatafield Like it or not, crowdfunding isn’t income, and shouldn’t be considered income for these kinds of purposes.
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