Debtors’ Prison Revived

Welcome to the day after Christmas. Not to harsh your buzz, but things are still worse than they’ve ever been.

Via Michael Moore, we learn from NPR that collection agencies have been employing debt collection tactics that land people in jail. Exactly what debtors are supposed to do from jail to remedy their debt situation is quite beyond my imagination. But this 19th-century (and earlier) phenomenon has returned. Welcome to the latest abuse of the poor in America, right up there with fraudulent home foreclosures and long-term unemployment past the duration of benefits. Now we have another group of poor people being tossed into jail, where they can neither begin paying off their debts nor (often enough) bail themselves out.

America… Fuck Yeah! USA! USA! … and many of the people who perpetrate this shit call themselves Christians. What was that shortest Bible verse? “Jesus wept”?

By Steve, on Monday December 26, 2011 at 12:01 am, under Poverty. 3 Comments
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  • georgesblog360  On Monday December 26, 2011 at 9:58 pm
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    As I wrote in my intro for today’s “The Daily Climb”, the debt instruments, like the Federal Reserve notes are like cockroaches or termites. More debt, more of them, won’t increase their food supply. We and everything we possess are the food supply.

    The Daily Climb

  • jams o donnell (Shaun Downey)  On Wednesday December 28, 2011 at 9:00 am
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    Scum.. the collections agencies that is

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