Judge Blasts Alabama “Debtor’s Prison”
- by Jessica Pieklo CAREtwo
- July 13, 2012
- 6:22 pm
A county judge in Alabama has had enough of a private probation company that passes on fees for its work to people convicted of crimes and then imprisons them when they can’t pay.
In a blistering order in connection with a lawsuit filed by four residents of Harpersville, Alabama against several local officials and Judicial Corrections Services, a private prison company, Shelby County Circuit Court Judge Hub Harrington pulled no punches in going after the practices by JCS and Harpersville officials.
