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This Town Ran An Illegal Debtor’s Prison For Years. Now It Has To Pay Back The People It Jailed.
Topic Started: May 7 2016, 06:34 AM (260 Views)
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Colorado Springs will pay back destitute people it illegally jailed because they couldn’t pay court fines, the city announced Thursday.

The city will also discontinue its debtor’s prison policy, which violated both the U.S. Constitution and a 2014 state law in Colorado. The system usually targeted non-jailable offenses like jaywalking, violating park curfews, or drinking in public.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/05/06/3776098/debtors-prison-repeal-colorado/
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Something that obviously hasn't occurred to those passing such laws is that if you take a man without a job and with no income, and put him in jail, he doesn't suddenly have a job and an income. Money doesn't appear out of no where. Jailing people without the funds to pay fines won't make those funds magically appear.
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