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Should people with unpaid fines be imprisoned or work off the debt instead?

Criminal handcuffed to bars in jail

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A government body is looking into ways to reduce the number of people in prison by abolishing laws that imprison people because of unpaid penalties.

 


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By Barda Katieh

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