Press Release of the Day

From the Justice Department: Jury Convicts South Dakota Hotel Owners on Federal Peonage and Document Servitude Charges.

If, like me, you had no idea what "peonage" is, I'll spare you the trouble of looking it up. It's the "status or condition of compulsory service, based upon indebtedness." That's right: this case is about a down-home Midwestern couple who basically forced a group of Philippine immigrants to work around the clock without pay at the Comfort Inn & Suites hotel they run in Oacoma, S.D.