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Report: Ohio Is Illegally Throwing Poor People In Jail For Owing Money

May 8th, 2013
Categories: News

Link: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/04/05/1829601/ohio-debtors-prison/?mobile=nc

The Americans Civil Liberties Union on Friday revealed that courts in Ohio are illegally throwing poor people in jail for being unable to pay off a debt. In a report titled, “The Outskirts of Hope,” the ACLU shines a light on a harrowing “debtors’ prison” system in Ohio — one that violates both the United States’ and the Ohio constitution. Ohioans are being jailed for “as small as a few hundred dollars,” despite the constitutional violation, and the economic evidence that it costs the state more to pay for their jail sentence than the amount of the debt.

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