Return of Debter Prisons?

[ВАЛТЕР]

http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/return-debtors-prisons-collection-agencies-now-want-deadbeats-172417607.html?l=1


In September, a 53 year-old woman named Vivian Joy was stopped for a broken tail-light in Champaign, Illinois. And then, because the cops discovered that she still hadn't paid $2,200 to a collection agency, she was cuffed and carted off to jail.

[Leonid Brozhnev]

Next up, the return of Workhouses and Poor farms.

[piet11111]

As i said in another thread that i fully expected this to start happening sometime soon.
DNZ probably remembers that post.

[ВАЛТЕР]

As i said in another thread that i fully expected this to start happening sometime soon.
DNZ probably remembers that post.


You know, I was honestly thinking that something like this would happen as well. I just had this feeling that the finance capitalists would feel the need to make examples of people.

[Raúl Duke]

Next up, the return of Workhouses and Poor farms.

In a way...I think those things have returned already...perhaps even more established than the debtor prison issue.

I read an article, perhaps in Alternet, on how after the Georgia "Show me your papers" immigration law passed many immigrants were detained and many left the state. Out of this, there arised a labor shortage in many of Georgia's farms that depend on dirt-cheap farm labor.

Since many of the immigrant detainment centers are private, they began to take labor requests from these farms and send detained immigrants to work in what in most cases would be their original place of work.

Also, private prisons also have work programs that are similar to "workhouses" of the past.

[Die Neue Zeit]

As i said in another thread that i fully expected this to start happening sometime soon.
DNZ probably remembers that post.

Me? I was thinking more about privatized prison labour.

Anyway, I'm not surprised by this.

[TheGodlessUtopian]

Not surprising, anything for the capitalists to make their profits.

[RadioRaheem84]

Guys, the article is talking about people failing to appear in court for a summon on a debt.

I do not think she went to jail because of debt.

Edit: OK, now I see what's going on. The companies are taking advantage of court ordered payments.

Damn, this is bonkers! Wanna bet how many judges were paid to allow for this?

[MattShizzle]

It's fucking bullshit. I see several commentors on there saying she could have declared bankruptcy - well, for some insane reason it actually costs money to declare bankruptcy - $500 just to file, having to take a course that's like $50 plus more if you have a lawyer. So someone who is truly absolutely broke can't declare bankruptcy. How much sense does that make?

[Raúl Duke]

I heard, although I'm not sure, that bankruptcy (by a person) laws have changed to make it less favorable for the debtor a few years back. I heard the lenders can sue you, etc while before it was different.

Yet bankruptcy law for businesses/corporations is highly favorable and/or it seems in this day and age not even needed since now companies seem to expect the government to bail them out.