Resurgence of Debtors' Prisons; Can't Pay Your Bills? Go Straight to Jail.
Think this is a a conspiracy theory? Allow your bills to lapse into collections and you may get a visit from the local sheriff.
Poor defendants are being jailed at increasingly alarming rates for failing to pay legal debts they can never hope to afford, according to two new reports released today by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Brennan Center for Justice.
http://know4life.blogspot.com/2010/10/aclu...
Poor defendants are being jailed at increasingly alarming rates for failing to pay legal debts they can never hope to afford, according to two new reports released today by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Brennan Center for Justice.
http://know4life.blogspot.com/2010/10/aclu...
Going straight to jail for not paying bills? WTF?