Wow, just wow. That article is hair raising. I knew that the private prison system in this country is a way of gathering slave labor, but I didn't know about the private probation industry, and the fact that they could imprison people for failing to pay a debt to them. These people are breaking the law in so many ways, and no one wants to tell them no, because they've got it into their head that the people being persecuted are bad and deserve it.
Alabama's custody system is really warped, and there is a history of people being denied custody because of their religious practices, or because they're queer, and for the latter, this particular rule against cohabitation is used as a justification. Yes, this law should be challenged, but child custody and divorce law is so full of frankly horrifying bias in so many ways that this is honest to God one of the more minor ones.
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Date: 2014-03-24 03:57 pm (UTC)Alabama's custody system is really warped, and there is a history of people being denied custody because of their religious practices, or because they're queer, and for the latter, this particular rule against cohabitation is used as a justification. Yes, this law should be challenged, but child custody and divorce law is so full of frankly horrifying bias in so many ways that this is honest to God one of the more minor ones.