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Jail admissions even for minor court debt are common, per analysis of US county-level data from Texas, Wisconsin and Oklahoma

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Forgotten but not gone: A multi-state analysis of modern-day debt imprisonment

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Jail admissions even for minor court debt are common, per analysis of US county-level data from Texas, Wisconsin and Oklahoma

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0290397

Article Title: Forgotten but not gone: A multi-state analysis of modern-day debt imprisonment

Author Countries: USA

Funding: This study was supported by a grant from Arnold Ventures (https://www.arnoldventures.org). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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