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Should YOU go to jail for owing money?

People struggling to pay overdue fines and fees associated with court costs for even the simplest traffic infractions are being thrown in jail across the United States. 

Critics are calling the practice the new "debtors' prison" -- referring to the jails that flourished in the U.S. and Western Europe over 150 years ago. Before the time of bankruptcy laws and social safety nets, poor folks and ruined business owners were locked up until their debts were paid off. 

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/12/26/local-courts-reviving-debtors-prison-for-overdue-fines-fe...

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