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Woman jailed over truancy fines found dead in cel - Twitchin Kitten - 06-12-2014
55 years old - dollar says massive heart attack OR they're covering something up. I'm leaning toward heart failure due to poor health.
Read the whole article. They're putting people in prison for debt which reeks of illegal since we no longer have debtor's prisons - which it says in the article. Never mind how putting her in jail for any amount of time uses public resources so how the hell can you erase the debt if you're spending it to house her? Why not give her community service and make the kids do it with her?
Woman jailed over truancy fines found dead in cell <-- click for full story
Posted: Jun 12, 2014 9:14 AM EDT
Updated: Jun 12, 2014 9:14 AM EDT
By MARYCLAIRE DALE
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Pennsylvania mother of seven died in a jail cell where she was serving a two-day sentence for her children's absence from school, drawing complaints from the judge that sent her there about a broken system that punishes impoverished parents.
Eileen DiNino, 55, of Reading, was found dead in a jail cell Saturday, halfway through a 48-hour sentence that would have erased about $2,000 in fines and court costs. The debt had accrued since 1999, and involved several of her seven children, most recently her boys at a vocational high school.
"Did something happen? Was she scared to death?" said District Judge Dean R. Patton, who reluctantly sent DiNino to the Berks County jail Friday after she failed to pay the debt for four years. <-- click headline ^ for full story.