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Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
Idaho Joins Missouri in Banning Incarceration for Inability To Pay Court Fines, Fees by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins It is no secret that in most prisons, poverty is the characteristic most often shared by prisoners. Some countries are trying to reduce crime by reducing poverty. But in many American …
Article • June 1, 2020 • from PLN June, 2020
Kansas County Jails People for Unpaid Medical Bills by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney A county in rural Kansas is jailing people over unpaid medical debt, CBS News reported in February 2020. The county is Coffeyville, Kansas, which has a poverty rate twice the national average. It’s also the place …
Brief • October 22, 2018
Ray v. Judicial Corrections Services, AL, Memo, Paying Court Debts, 2018 Case 2:12-cv-02819-RDP Document 709 Filed 10/22/18 Page 1 of 59 FILED 2018 Oct-22 PM 10:36 U.S. DISTRICT COURT N.D. OF ALABAMA UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ALABAMA SOUTHERN DIVISION GINA KAY RAY, et al., Individually and on …
Fighting Fines & Fees: Borrowing from Consumer Law to Combat Criminal Justice Debt Abuses, Neil Sobol, Texas A&M University School of Law, 2017 Legal Studies Research Paper Series Research Paper No. 17–34 Fighting Fines & Fees: Borrowing from Consumer Law to Combat Criminal Justice Debt Abuses Neil L. Sobol This …
Publication • January 1, 2017
Shackled to Debt, Harvard Kennedy School-National Institute of Justice, 2017 New Thinking in Community Corrections VE RI TAS JANUARY 2017 • NO. 4 HARVARD Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management Shackled to Debt: Criminal Justice Financial Obligations and the Barriers to Re-Entry They Create Karin D. Martin, …