ACLU Report Exposes Modern-Day Debtors’ Prisons

aclu-wa.org | Oct. 4, 2010 (News Report)

Poor people increasingly are being jailed for failing to pay legal debts they can never hope to afford, according to a new report released today by the American Civil Liberties Union. “Debtors’ prisons” create new hardships for people seeking to re-enter society and waste resources in an often fruitless effort to extract payments from defendants who may be homeless, unemployed, or simply too poor to pay. The report looks at “debtors’ prisons” ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Nov 6, 2010 - 1:47 PM PDT
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 by Dwight Rousu - Nov. 6, 2010

Another case of NGOs doing some of the best reporting, especially on the poor and jobless stratums of society. Rare insight and investigative reporting. One of the links shows the Seattle Times picking up the story from the source.

“It’s like something out of Dickens – impoverished people being locked up because they can’t pay off all their debts. And like something by Kafka – the government ... More »

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