Rural Missouri judges are still holding on to debtors prison scheme
Janel Spoon was $2 short.
It was Feb. 9, 2016.
She lives in Rock Port, a tiny little northwest Missouri town. It’s just west of Tarkio and east of the Missouri River. Spoon had a court date in Andrew County, to the southeast of where she lives.
It was a payment review hearing to collect her board bill from a stay in the county jail.
Three years earlier she and her boyfriend stole some food from the Family Dollar store. Police found her with a jar of strawberry jam.
Read more: https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/columns/tony-messenger/messenger-rural-missouri-judges-are-still-holding-on-to-debtors/article_9a0a5e65-097c-588f-9214-bc003df86bcc.html
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