The NAACP's photos - NAACP billboard in California highlights disparities in #prison & #education spending. #SmartandSafe | Plixi

The NAACP's photos - NAACP billboard in California highlights disparities in #prison & #education spending. #SmartandSafe | Plixi

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"Welcome to America, home to 5% of the world's people & 25% of the world's prisoners." - New @NAACP billboard. http://plixi.com/p/90280929

Welcome to Debtors' Prison, 2011 Edition - Yahoo! Finance

Welcome to Debtors' Prison, 2011 Edition - Yahoo! Finance

"Some judges are worried that the jump in debt-related arrest warrants is creating a modern-day version of debtors' prison. The practice ended in 1833 after decades of controversy, since borrowers owing as little as 60 cents could be held indefinitely in squalid jails until they paid off their debt."

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Corporations , again, can 're-negotiate' billions in debt........Us Peasants get thrown in jail for a couple hundred dollars........
Welcome to Debtors' Prison, 2011 Edition - Yahoo! Finance
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Some lawmakers, judges and regulators are trying to rein in the U.S. debt-collection industry s use of arrest warrants to recoup money owed by borrowers

Prison Economics Help Drive Ariz. Immigration Law : NPR

Prison Economics Help Drive Ariz. Immigration Law : NPR

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Voter ID will be the next assault in Wisconsin. Prepare. Read.
Prison Economics Help Drive Ariz. Immigration Law : NPR
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"The state's new law could send hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants to prison. An analysis of fund-raising documents, lobbying records and corporate reports shows that the private prison industry helped draft and pass the measure."