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ACLU accuses Ohio courts of enacting ‘debtors’ prisons’

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A report by the American Civil Liberties Union has accused courts in Ohio of jailing indigent defendants for not being able to pay court fines, an apparent revival of the 19th century practice of “debtors’ prisons.” According to the Cleveland Plain-Dealer, the organization named...

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