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April 24, 2012 02:04 pm PDT
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Debtors' prisons make an American comeback
Alain Sherter of CBS MoneyWatch and the AP report on the disturbing resurgence of debtor's prisons in America. Though it is technically no longer legal to jail people for failure to pay their debts, the debt-collection industry has figured out how to game the courts to create a series of jail-able offenses related to nonpayment. [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/wbMJUy4FVrE/debtors-prisons-make-an-amer.html
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