Is an Arkansas Town Operating a "Hot Check" Court as an Illegal Debtors' Prison?
September 2, 2016
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6:57Now PlayingIs an Arkansas Town Operating a "Hot Check" Court as an Illegal Debtors' Prison?
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as posted by the channelA woman in Sherwood, Arkansas, just spent 35 days in a county jail after she accidentally bounced a $29 check five years ago. Nikki Petree was sentenced to jail last month by a judge accused of running a debtors’ prison. She had already been arrested at least seven times over the bounced check and paid at least $600 in court fines. Her release comes as the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the ACLU and an international law firm have filed a lawsuit to challenge the modernday debtors’ prison in Sherwood. We speak with Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, who says Sherwood jails people in violation of a longstanding law that forbids the incarceration of people for their failure to pay debts.
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