Sometimes The Justice System Makes No Sense

Jani Lane, formerly of Warrant and Celebrity Fit Club pleaded no contest to his DUI charge from back in June. As part of the deal he made with prosecutors to get his hit and run charge dismissed, he is going to have to spend two days in jail, 36 months probation, 3 months of alcohol classes and spend 30 days picking up trash on the side of the road. That all seems like a fair penalty for a DUI. I am ok with that. This is the part that makes absolutely no sense to me. Jani was also ordered to pay $395 in court costs and fines. Great. No problem. However if he chooses not to pay the $395 he can spend an additional 13 days in jail. So, if Jani doesn't have $395 to pay to the County of Los Angeles, they are willing to spend $100 a day for 13 days to house him and feed him and spend $1300 and willing to give up the $395 they were charging him. Imagine as this scenario is multiplied 100 times every day and you can see there is something terribly wrong with the way the courts have decided to do business. I don't understand why you can't set up payment arrangements or something. I don't care if the person only pays $10 a month for the three years they are on probation, it is better than the current procedure. No wonder we don't have any money in this state.