Mississippi “restitution centers” are modern day debtors prisons that disproportionately target African Americans.
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Nearly two centuries ago, the U.S. formally abolished the incarceration of people who failed to pay off debts. Yet, recent years have witnessed the rise of modern-day debtors’ prisons — the arrest and jailing of poor people for failure to pay legal debts they can never hope to afford, through criminal justice procedures that violate their most basic rights.
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Here is something you might like to re-Blog from the UK: ‘Your Man in the Public Gallery – Assange Hearing Day 1’: https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/02/your-man-in-the-public-gallery-assange-hearing-day-1/comment-page-1/#comments [https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_GB/i/scr/pixel.gif] Your Man in the Public Gallery – Assange Hearing Day 1 – Craig Murray Woolwich Crown Court is designed to impose the power of the state. Normal courts in this country are public buildings, deliberately placed by our ancestors right in the centre of towns, almost always just up a few steps from a main street. The major purpose of their positioning and of their architecture was to facilitate … http://www.craigmurray.org.uk Paul Barbara London UK
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Very interesting link, Paul. Thanks for sharing.
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