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Final Call: Report: Modern-Day Debtors' Prisons Devastating the Poor

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

?The industry itself is tremendous. Can you imagine what it takes to run, say, California State Prisons in terms of food services, clothing, armaments, initially the building trades? It's a multi-billion dollar industry that a great number of people are getting fat off of so it's so disingenuous for them to say they're losing money because people aren't paying their fees,? Ms. (Geri) Silva added. Report: Modern-Day Debtors' Prisons Devastating the Poor Final Call , News Report, Charlene Muhammad, Posted: Oct 19, 2010 Poor men and women exit America's prisons and jails, believing that they have paid their debts to society, but a new prison study by the ACLU revealed that many are being locked up or threatened because they cannot afford to pay their legal fines...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on October 20, 2010 (boomark / email).