Submitted by Michael Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg,
Apparently having 5% of the world’s population, but 25% of its prisoners simply isn’t good enough for neo-feudal America. No, we need to find more creative and archaic ways to wastefully, immorally and seemingly unconstitutionally incarcerate poor people. Welcome to the latest trend in the penal colony formerly known as America. Debtors’ prisons. A practice I thought had long since been deemed outdated (indeed it has been largely eradicated in the Western world with the exception of about 1/3 of U.S. states as well as Greece).
https://www.aclu.org/blog/criminal-law-reform/outskirts-hope-how-ohios-debtors-prisons-are-ruining-lives-and-costing
ReplyDeleteTD, that's a pretty interesting article.
ReplyDeleteIt is indeed a sorry testament to a nation purported to be one that embraces freedom and liberty.... but law makers have to do something to make themselves relevant, even if it means making more and more constituents irrelevant.
ReplyDeletehttp://mises.org/daily/5759/
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/10/you-break-the-law-every-day-without-even-knowing-it.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2313669/We-claim-law-abiding-breaks-260-rules-year-according-new-study.html