The Return of Debtor's Prisons
Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2015 12:03 am
This must be another new way to keep all them oppressed people, oppressed. How clever! I really like the "private for profit probation companies". What could go wrong?
Cash-strapped cities and states increasingly are trying to tap a previously overlooked pot of money – uncollected fines, fees and other costs imposed by civil and criminal courts – in order to help them balance their books.
And when people don’t pay these court-ordered debts, some local officials have not been shy about tossing them in jail, leading to the creation of modern-day “debtor’s prisons”? full of poor offenders, advocates say.
http://www.nbcnews.com/feature/in-plain ... -v18380470
Cash-strapped cities and states increasingly are trying to tap a previously overlooked pot of money – uncollected fines, fees and other costs imposed by civil and criminal courts – in order to help them balance their books.
And when people don’t pay these court-ordered debts, some local officials have not been shy about tossing them in jail, leading to the creation of modern-day “debtor’s prisons”? full of poor offenders, advocates say.
http://www.nbcnews.com/feature/in-plain ... -v18380470