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When you're criminally accused, how do you pay your mortgage?
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Well, this is not a US problem or a prison problem. It's fundamentally a problem where you don't pay your mortgage. If you decide to go to the international space station for 2 years and not pay your mortgage during that time, you will get your house foreclosed.
Pay your mortgage and if you are not able to do it yourself, get someone to do it for you.
The peasants have no bread? Skill Issue. I would have simply eaten cake.
Proximate cause vs ultimate cause
It's an especially awful problem in America because we jail people for minor offenses so this impacts a lot of people that arguably should never be jailed anyways... and once you're jailed in the US there's a strong chance it will happen again and again.
People who spend 2 years on the ISS are generally very well paid for it. They're not going to have any trouble covering their mortgage.
That is entirely different from having your ability to earn a living taken away by the state even while legally presumed innocent.
It doesn't matter, you went against the narrative.