Whereas the practice of financially penalising individuals for their incarceration, such as through “pay-to-stay” policies, is unjust; and
Whereas this practice often keeps former prisoners in a cycle of debt, thereby actively impeding the reintegration of prisoners into society while causing many prisoners to return to crime;
The World Assembly enacts as follows.
- No individual may suffer any financial penalty, or otherwise be required to provide any payment, where that burden would not exist but for their incarceration and is intended to fund their incarceration or otherwise recuperate costs associated therewith.
- Creditors must fully relieve all debts owed by an individual as a result of a required financial penalty or payment of the nature proscribed by Section 1. Member nations must terminate bankrupt status, and expunge records thereof not purely for the purpose of administrative record-keeping, where such status is as a result of any debt of the nature proscribed by Section 1.
- Should a provision of this resolution contradict a past World Assembly resolution still in force, that previous resolution takes precedence.