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Dekalb County Settles Lawsuit, Ends Debtors’ Prisons

Loaded on July 6, 2016 published in Prison Legal News July, 2016, page 52
Filed under: Judicial Misconduct, Indigent Defense, Probation, Judicial Immunity. Location: Georgia.

Last year, the American Civil Liberties Union reached a settlement that will end debtors’ prisons in Dekalb County, Georgia. The settlement is the latest in a string of lawsuits challenging contracts involving for-profit probation company Judicial Correction Services (JCS). [See: PLN, Jan. 2014, p.18].

The suit, filed in January 2015, ...

 

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