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21. Someone explain to me in slow little words

Fri May 6, 2016, 10:57 AM

May 2016

how the city of Colorado could even justify the cost of imprisoning these debtors ? Seems to me that any intelligent court system would work out some sort of payment schedule with the debtors. Wonder how much it cost the tax-payers of the city to house, feed and care for these people.

Also, I am a poor student of Federal law - but even I know that our Founding Fathers had a deep hatred of debtors prisons and did not want that blot on the American government. Isn't it either in the Constitution or Bill of Rights that one cannot be imprisoned for a debt except in rare cases?

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Colorado Springs Will Re-Pay Those Sent to Debtor's Prison in Landmark Settlement [View all] Purveyor May 2016 OP

Yay! NJCher May 2016 #1

Ferguson, MO... ReRe May 2016 #9

Hurrah to the ACLU!!! Time to send a donation. n/t pnwmom May 2016 #2

Yes..and I just got my annual renewal mountain grammy May 2016 #3

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Yes! redwitch May 2016 #5

Hooray for the ACLU! And for Colorado Springs! raging moderate May 2016 #6

Naw.... ReRe May 2016 #10

K&R Solly Mack May 2016 #7

Um, isn't this just symbolic? Tab May 2016 #8

I don't believe that the ACLU collects legal fees csziggy May 2016 #13

please note that this settlement only applies to those jailed since 2014. statute of limitations niyad May 2016 #17

if it stops them in the future it is more than symbolic questionseverything May 2016 #20

Time for another donation to the ACLU. LS_Editor May 2016 #11

They say that we are free, only to be chained to this here poverty Redness May 2016 #12

welcome to du niyad May 2016 #14

one of these days this damned fundieville will enter the modern era. niyad May 2016 #15

a bit more on the settlements: niyad May 2016 #16

don't get too excited--it isn't like this "heart of darkness", as john sayles called it, actually niyad May 2016 #18

Bastards. 103,000 lb peanut. lonestarnot May 2016 #19

Someone explain to me in slow little words packman May 2016 #21

Explanation Redness May 2016 #22

Awesome. avaistheone1 May 2016 #23

Colorado Springs is one of the craziest conservative places in the USA.... pbmus May 2016 #24