"Cash-Strapped States Resurrect "Debtors' Prisons"

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konane — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 17:35:19 GMT

Thanks Sully! Looks that way.

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sully16 — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 17:16:16 GMT

Yes I agree, they are helping us to be poor.

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konane — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 14:22:55 GMT

Thanks Sully! So long as we have a government more oriented toward seizing people's worth every way they can dream up ... which is not conducive to small business starting up so they can employ people this problem will only get worse. With jobs available people can pay off what they owe.

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sully16 — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 14:12:25 GMT

There are to many people living way beyond their means...should they get a buy on legal fees because they are poor?<br />should the tax payers be forced to foot the bill for this either way?<br />I'm going to think about this some more, a better solution would be community service.<br />even lawyers have children to feed.<br />many angles to this .

Original Blog Entry: "Cash-Strapped States Resurrect "Debtors' Prisons"

konane — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 13:31:00 GMT

Cash-Strapped States Resurrect Debtors' Prisons

Wednesday 06 October 2010 by: Nadia Prupis, t r u t h o u t

Two reports published by NYU's Brennan Center for Justice and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) reveal a rising trend of patently unconstitutional practices in cash-strapped states, where a growing number of impoverished people are jailed for being unable to pay their legal fees - including charges for use of public defenders, a guaranteed right in the United States. The resurgence of these draconian debtors' prisons has been documented in at least 13 of the 15 states with the largest prison populations in the country, including California, Arizona, Michigan and Alabama.......

http://www.truth-out.org/punishing-poor-being-poor63949

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