Think Debtors Prisons Are a Thing of the Past? Not in Mississippi
> A judge sentenced Husband to the restitution center in 2015 to pay off almost $13,000 she owed from an embezzlement conviction in 2009.> The State of Mississippi had locked Husband into a modern-day debtors prison.Let’s agree that this sort of punishment is potentially not conducive to restorative justice.But what justification is there for the article to deceive the reader with a comparison to debtors prisons?The EU Convention on Human Rights bans debtors prisons. It states: "No one shall be deprived of his liberty merely on the ground of inability to fulfil a contractual obligation." Restitution as punishment for a crime does not arise out of a “contractual obligation.” It arises out of a criminal conviction.