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  • Debtors Prisons Alive and Well in Louisiana

    09/06/2015 2:02:22 PM PDT · by BBell · 34 replies
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com ^ | 9/2/15 | Bill Quigley
    Even though the U.S. Supreme Court has said it is unconstitutional, Louisiana still puts hundreds of people in prison every year just because they are too poor to pay court-ordered fines, court costs and costs of probation, according to a recent investigative report by the Louisiana chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. This misuse of the criminal legal system, often called "pay or stay" is flatly illegal. As The Marshall Project reported, the U.S. Congress outlawed the use of debtors' prisons -- jails for people too poor to pay off their debts -- under federal law nearly 200 years...