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Screen Shot 2017 10 15 at 7.05.28 AM - Attorneys: Plaintiff in ACLU case handcuffed to hospital bed

Attorneys: Plaintiff in ACLU case handcuffed to hospital bed

October 19, 2017 Jim McElhatton 0

But while in jail, he was denied proper medication, twice blacked out and ended up in the emergency room for dangerously low blood pressure even as he was cuffed to his hospital bed, according to the amended complaint.

Screen Shot 2017 10 11 at 10.33.07 AM - Arch City: Woman jailed 27 days over unpaid traffic tickets

Arch City: Woman jailed 27 days over unpaid traffic tickets

October 11, 2017 Jim McElhatton 0

The lawsuit, filed October 10 in US District Court of the Eastern District of Missouri against the City of Arnold, says officials jailed Qiana Williams […]

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Conflicts and contracting out justice debt collections

October 10, 2017 Jim McElhatton 0

More local governments are turning to private collection companies to recoup overdue court fines, but it’s a model that raises serious conflict of interest concerns […]

Screen Shot 2017 10 15 at 6.43.56 AM - ACLU: Despite law, Debtors' prisons persist in Colorado

ACLU: Despite law, Debtors’ prisons persist in Colorado

October 6, 2017 Jim McElhatton 1

The American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado issued a scathing report this week that found Colorado municipal court judges operate with almost no state oversight, […]

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South Carolina official sued by ACLU warned of problems years ago

October 6, 2017 Jim McElhatton 0

More than four years before the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit accusing Lexington County, South Carolina officials of running “modern day debtors’ prison,” […]

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ACLU knocks South Carolina public defender in debtors’ prison case

October 5, 2017 Jim McElhatton 0

The American Civil Liberties Union’s most recent litigation to help end debtors’ prisons includes, at first glance anyway, an unusual if not downright surprising defendant […]

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In Bogalusa, a lesson for Louisiana judges

October 4, 2017 Jim McElhatton 0

As a city judge in Bogalusa, Louisiana, Robert Black told defendants charged with various traffic and other municipal criminal offenses they could stay out of […]

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