U.S. Department of Justice

In For a Penny: The Rise of America's New Debtors' Prisons

Publication year: 2010 | Cataloged on: Nov. 22, 2010

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  • 024741

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  • 2010
  • 92 pages

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ANNOTATION: “This ACLU report presents the results of a yearlong investigation into modern-day "debtors' prisons," and shows that poor defendants are being jailed at increasingly alarming rates for failing to pay legal debts they can never hope to afford” (website). Following an executive summary is an assessment of the collection practices related to legal financial obligations (LFOs) for five states—Louisiana, Michigan, Ohio, Georgia, and Washington.
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