This ACLU report presents the results of a year-long investigation into modern-day “debtors’ prisons,” and shows that poor defendants are being jailed at increasingly alarming rates for failing to pay legal debts they can never hope to afford. The report details how across the country, in the face of mounting budget deficits, states are more … Continue reading ACLU Report – In For a Penny: The Rise of America’s New Debtors’ Prisons