Jail is not the solution for failure to pay fines

THE news that 540 people were jailed for minor fines last year is simply shocking.

Thu, 02 Jun, 2011 - 01:00
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It hearkens back to Dickensian times and their own debtors’ prisons.

Also the cost of the prisoner upkeep defies logic especially in these troubled times.

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