Comments on: Oklahoma County jail tax vote is coming http://blog.newsok.com/scissortales/2012/11/30/oklahoma-county-jail-tax-vote-is-coming/ Commentary and insight on the issues of the day Sun, 19 May 2013 15:06:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: J Taxpayer http://blog.newsok.com/scissortales/2012/11/30/oklahoma-county-jail-tax-vote-is-coming/comment-page-1/#comment-7205 J Taxpayer Sat, 01 Dec 2012 06:15:54 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/scissortales/?p=4324#comment-7205 Citizens should defeat this oversized largesse. Most arrests are for failure to appear in traffic court. A more reasonable solution would be to allow the offenders who have not appeared in court to simply pay their fines in the jail lobby.
The origin of the public jail system was to confine dangerous people away from general population. The present system seems a tad bit closer to the British concept of debtor’s prisons.

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