• Today@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    You can end up paying room and board, mandatory counseling, classes, drug tests, etc. Plus phone calls are outrageously expensive. It’s a total racket.

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      1 month ago

      How does that work if you don’t have money or just don’t pay? I mean what are they going do? Put you in jail?

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        Take a piece of all future income until it’s paid off of you pass away. At least here you can personally bankrupt once in a life time and live on “lowest livable” amount of money for five years and then get the debts “forgiven” except those accrued during the five year period.

        It’s a hassle to apply and get granted though, usually not the privacy invasion invasion a recently released care to subject to