[FireBeyond]

Are you suggesting that Florida it’s to go ‘soft on “crime”’? That would fly in the face of almost all available evidence.

I have extended family in Florida. The system absolutely can and does and will push the issue. There’s a reason that it’s a crime not to pay for your incarceration even if you have a finding of factual innocence against you.

[cucumber3732842]

Your family isn't sleeping under a bridge or whatever. Of course the system wants your money or the money of people on comparable economic footing you associate with. If you can work as a debt slave to the system it wants you to do that even if it means a never ending cycle of robbing peter to pay paul, sleeping on other people's couches, etc. The man sleeping under a bridge cannot, so the cops and the DA and everyone else just go fry bigger fish. Maybe they push the issue 1/100th of the time and incarcerate someone every now and they but they absolutely do not prioritize it the way they do someone who could pay even if only by moving heaven and earth. The system doesn't want to manufacture yet another felony and then incarcerate someone for it out of thin air, that just costs the system more money.

Source: my tiny keyhole view into the system. The parties involve always have have discretion to downgrade stuff to something else, or not pursue it at all and are incentivizes.

[FireBeyond]

> The system doesn't want to manufacture yet another felony and then incarcerate someone for it out of thin air, that just costs the system more money.

You say this like Florida doesn't have both the most private prisons in the country, and the most inmates held in such facilities.

"The system" doesn't care. Florida has, repeatedly, shown a willingness to cut back on education and healthcare.

And private prisons have repeatedly been shown to be a hotbed of corruption.