No, the best place to get help is not behind bars. Just look at our country’s extremely high recidivism rate.

Do you really believe 99% of people who break the law do so just because “they’re evil people who have no motivation other than hurting good people (like me)”?

Convenience.

It can take days (or even weeks) for a check to clear he Federal Reserve and for the funds to be transfered to the receiving bank. If your bank placed a 3 week hold on your check while you have bills to pay, causing you to get late fees? You’re probably going to close your accounts and find a new bank.

Instead, banks will often issue provisional credits on the assumption that the check is valid. If the check does turn out to be fraudulent or if the issues has insufficient funds, they can always just reverse the credit and debit the funds back out of your account.

You’re wrong.

It is possible to make all of the right choices and still fail.

Families lose their home to natural disasters, children are born into poverty, people contract debilitating diseases that make them unable to work, workers are the victims of exploitation and theft.

Society is what we make it. If you think society should punish people for being poor, you do you, but I think that we can do better than hurting people who are already suffering