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bobbieinok

(12,858 posts) Wed Feb 14, 2018, 08:19 AM Feb 2018

Entire families were locked up for debt

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Will GOPers bring back debtors prisons like the Marshalsea in Dickens' Little Dorrit? (Original Post) bobbieinok Feb 2018 OP

Not debtors prisons...many, if not most of their cons depend on debt. teamster633 Feb 2018 #1

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1. Not debtors prisons...many, if not most of their cons depend on debt.

Wed Feb 14, 2018, 10:16 AM

Feb 2018

Criminalizing being poor, however, is something they could get behind. Some of their policies already tend in that direction.