Kansas county sends people to prison for medical debt

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Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/02/10/kentucky-county-sends-people-t.html

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So conservative Kentucky has death panels now?

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Um, @jlw, Coffeyville is in Kansas.

(Unlike the Chiefs – I had to dig at ol’ Donny)

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This lawyer is repugnant. I was not aware laws can be created by suggestions from county lawyers to county Judges.

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Expect ALEC to push this to the rest of the country.

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Thank you!

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TGOP ACA is winning, again…

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First Coffeyville corrupts my Google Analytics data, and now this? That’s one town I will not be visiting

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Where’s Covfefeville? :grin:

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It’s the secret Koch/Pompeo base where the League of Super-Assholes plot their crimes.

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Kansas, the Florida of the plains.

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Did you tRumple that, just like Google’n something but more humorous.

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Welcome to the Republican utopia. Debtor’s prison reinstated. Next phase - re-legalizing torture of criminal case defendants.

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Kansas, stealing guffaws and laughter from Alabama and Mississippi since the Republican party took over the state. Way to go boys.

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But feel free to work off your debt in prison.

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You must be referring to the Great State of Missouri.

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“What’s happening here is a jailhouse shake-down for cash that is the criminalization of private debt.”

Funny how quiet freedom-loving Libertarians are about this.

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