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.

Jail is not the solution for failure to pay fines
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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