Think Debtors Prisons Are a Thing of the Past? Not in Mississippi
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Think Debtors Prisons Are a Thing of the Past? Not in Mississippi
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Re: Think Debtors Prisons Are a Thing of the Past? Not in Mississippi
#2How is this constitutional?
Re: Think Debtors Prisons Are a Thing of the Past? Not in Mississippi
#3How is this constitutional?
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Re: Think Debtors Prisons Are a Thing of the Past? Not in Mississippi
#4They aren’t a thing of the past. Debt related criminal offenses are just charged differently as contempt of court or fraud: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/debtors-prison-aclu-rep...
Re: Think Debtors Prisons Are a Thing of the Past? Not in Mississippi
#5From what I understand there are a metric fuckton of people imprisoned for inability to pay child support, so I'd say debtor prisons aren't limited to Mississippi.
Re: Think Debtors Prisons Are a Thing of the Past? Not in Mississippi
#6How is this constitutional?
13th Amendment
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Re: Think Debtors Prisons Are a Thing of the Past? Not in Mississippi
#7The more I read about "justice" in the US the more I realise how fucked up and perverted the concept of justice is in that country.
We're always quick to criticise other countries for the failings or bad design of their justice system and lack of respect for human rights, but are we much better? We might be better on paper, but is that actually reflected in reality? I'm not so sure.
Re: Think Debtors Prisons Are a Thing of the Past? Not in Mississippi
#8The scandal is the mainstream press hasn't raised this and related problems in the justice system. They really only have one job, and no amount of "concern" for political issues is sufficient to compensate for the shameful oversight of issues like this.
I'd argue any writer with a Pulitzer should hand it back until they have personally effected change in justice and prison reform. I'm angry that the system works this way, but I'm even angrier that people who do nothing but write for a living get to do so without making this a national priority.
Re: Think Debtors Prisons Are a Thing of the Past? Not in Mississippi
#9The scandal is the mainstream press hasn't raised this and related problems in the justice system. They really only have one job, and no amount of "concern" for political issues is sufficient to compensate for the shameful oversight of issues like this. I'd argue any writer with a Pulitzer should hand it back until they have personally effected change in justice and prison reform. I'm angry that the system works this…
This is silly. The "mainstream press" is nothing more than a mirror. If there were widespread outrage about justice and prison reform, there would be much more coverage of it. There really just isn't much interest, and it's honestly as fervent on the pro-punishment side as the reform side (e.g. Jeff Sessions' disastrous but celebrated term as Attorney General in rolling back progress made at the Federal level: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/jeff-sessions-is-trying...)
Re: Think Debtors Prisons Are a Thing of the Past? Not in Mississippi
#10Strange that she decided to have three kids when she could barely even manage her finances.