Wednesday, August 10, 2011
A story about a modern debtors' prison in Michigan.
Fish-Fine Kyle Dewitt spent three days in jail because he was too poor to pay a fishing fine. (Dewitt disputes the charge).
“Long thought to be a relic of the 19th century, debtors’ prisons are still alive and well in Michigan,” Kary Moss, executive director of the Michigan ACLU, said in a press release. “Jailing our clients because they are poor is not only unconstitutional, it’s unconscionable and a shameful waste of resources.”
IMO: In the UK, Cameron's criminal and worthless regime will ensure - through the 'cuts' - that paupers will not be allowed adequate legal defence. It is both difficult and in many cases often well-nigh useless even now ! The courts are only too often total crap already. Cameron will at best try to extract Army work where they will be cannon-fodder or maybe use them as free local slave labor. Cameron's idea of the Big Society seems to be a 'Slave Society' which givs plenty of free labor to his moat and duckpond pals. World War II was fought to deprive the world of such idiots as Cameron.
“Long thought to be a relic of the 19th century, debtors’ prisons are still alive and well in Michigan,” Kary Moss, executive director of the Michigan ACLU, said in a press release. “Jailing our clients because they are poor is not only unconstitutional, it’s unconscionable and a shameful waste of resources.”
IMO: In the UK, Cameron's criminal and worthless regime will ensure - through the 'cuts' - that paupers will not be allowed adequate legal defence. It is both difficult and in many cases often well-nigh useless even now ! The courts are only too often total crap already. Cameron will at best try to extract Army work where they will be cannon-fodder or maybe use them as free local slave labor. Cameron's idea of the Big Society seems to be a 'Slave Society' which givs plenty of free labor to his moat and duckpond pals. World War II was fought to deprive the world of such idiots as Cameron.
# posted by uv : 4:47 AM
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