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April 6, 2013 10:20 pm PDT
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Widespread, illegal debtors' prisons in Ohio
A new ACLU report called The Outskirts of Hope (PDF) documents the rise of illegal debtors prisons in Ohio. A majority of municipal and mayors' courts (an unregulated and rare system of courts only permitted in two states) surveyed by the ACLU routinely imprison people for their inability to pay fines, a practice banned in [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/G9AEKuDDDnE/story01.htm
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