Did you catch Stephen Colbert's "debt or prison" segment last night on The Colbert Report? Stephen runs through the sadly comical ways in which being a prisoner and being a debtor are converging and starting to blur in our prisons and justice system.
Here in Colorado, we struck a major blow against debtors' prisons in the 2014 legislative session by passing HB 1061, a bill prohibiting local courts from jailing people who cannot afford to pay fines and fees. https://aclu-co.org/blog/gov-signs-debtors-prison-ban-law/
Watch the full "Colbert Report" clip below. Then check out our End Debtors' Prisons campaign page at: https://aclu-co.org/campaigns/end-debtors-prisons/