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| Deal frees 'debtor prison' woman |
| By Atlanta Journal-Constitution |
| Published: 09/20/2006 |
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ATLANTA, GA - A woman held in a halfway house for months beyond her original sentence because she could not pay a $705 fine was released Tuesday after an agreement between the state Department of Corrections and the Southern Center for Human Rights. Ora Lee Hurley had been caught in a legal Catch-22 that kept her confined to the Gateway Diversion Center in Atlanta for eight months beyond her initial 120-day sentence for a probation violation. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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