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How lenders are turning low-level courts into Dickensian "debt-collection mills"
« on: March 08, 2018, 09:44:56 am »
Debtors' prisons are a thing of the past, but the debt collection process can still result in jail time, even in the US. This tragic story appeared in The Intercept (February 28):


https://theintercept.com/2018/02/28/criminalization-of-debt-imprisonment-aclu-report/
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