Groups erase some probation debt in Mississippi, Florida

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A nonprofit group and a debtors' union have bought and erased private probation debt for about 20,500 people in Mississippi and Florida, sending letters that told them the news and sharply criticized “abusive debt collectors.”

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