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TexasTowelie

(116,768 posts) Mon May 13, 2019, 07:48 AM May 2019

Rural Missouri judges are still holding on to debtors prison scheme

Janel Spoon was $2 short.

It was Feb. 9, 2016.

She lives in Rock Port, a tiny little northwest Missouri town. It’s just west of Tarkio and east of the Missouri River. Spoon had a court date in Andrew County, to the southeast of where she lives.

It was a payment review hearing to collect her board bill from a stay in the county jail.

Three years earlier she and her boyfriend stole some food from the Family Dollar store. Police found her with a jar of strawberry jam.

Read more: https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/columns/tony-messenger/messenger-rural-missouri-judges-are-still-holding-on-to-debtors/article_9a0a5e65-097c-588f-9214-bc003df86bcc.html

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Rural Missouri judges are still holding on to debtors prison scheme (Original Post) TexasTowelie May 2019 OP

Republicans the want to punish the poor ROB-ROX May 2019 #1

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1. Republicans the want to punish the poor

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Mon May 13, 2019, 04:19 PM

May 2019

The founding fathers hated debtor prisons. I never read anything about paying prisons for incarceration expenses. If this poor state had a sound taxation system this would not be a problem. This state seems to be another republican "third" world debtor state. I am very glad I do not live in the RED states where people are required to pay for their punishment........

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