ACLU Challenges Debtors’ Prisons Across Michigan

by Gary Kopycinski on August 4, 2011

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DETROIT–(ENEWSPF)–August 4, 2011. The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Michigan said today that they are challenging “pay or stay” sentences imposed on five persons across the state who were illegally jailed for being too poor to pay court fines.