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Debtors' Prisons Returning to America

Loaded on Nov. 15, 2013 by David Reutter published in Prison Legal News November, 2013, page 20
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Statistics/Trends, Contempt (Civil Procedure), Restitution. Location: United States of America.

As the United States was becoming an independent nation with its own values and form of government, it discarded an archaic English system that drove the poor into greater poverty. When the U.S. ended the practice of debtors’ prisons in 1833, it ensured that people would not be jailed merely ...

 

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