seem to be making a comeback in the us of a. As having accumulated a certain amount of debt this makes me nervous
from npr/cbs and thinkprogress.org
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More than a third of all states now allow borrowers who don’t pay their bills to be jailed, even when debtor’s prisons have been explicitly banned by state constitutions. A report by the American Civil Liberties Union found that people were imprisoned even when the cost of doing so exceeded the amount of debt they owed.
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Debt collection is a lucrative business — the industry is set to grow 26 percent in the next three years.
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The Federal Trade Commission received more than 140,000 complaints related to debt collection in 2010. That's nearly 25,000 more than the previous year.
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anybody remember that "kidsforcash" stuff? Prison industrial complex is coming for ya **** i wish i was born upper class.