A judge sentenced a cancer patient to 90 days in jail for writing merely $200 worth of bad checks in what critics are calling an unconstitutional debtors prison. The man, Lee Robertson, was unable to pay the checks because ...
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Debtors Prison Returns To America
Many Americans are serving weeks or months in jail simply because they are broke, despite a Supreme Court ruling that banned debtors prisons. An investigation by National Public Radio (NPR) found that large numbers of Americans have been incarcerated because ...
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