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Courts have grown more dependent on fees and fines for revenue. But enforcing them is expensive — and we don’t even know the true costs.
UCLA Labor Center study finds county relies on laborers – largely people of color – threatened with debts and jail to do work that would otherwise be paid.
The lawsuit claims Purdue paid members of the Sackler family more than $4 billion between 2008 and 2016.
What happens when the adults in the room are scarier than the crying baby? Who’s responsible for the last 17 years of American wars that have convulsed the planet? Babies? Teenagers? Grown men acting like babies? Let’s face it: perfectly sober adults
Currently around 30 percent of black men in Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi are not eligible to vote because of felony disenfranchisement laws. Meanwhile, these felony disenfranchisement laws create a new class of criminals: people who vote while ineligible.
"The South is the most rapidly changing region in the nation and deserves courts that reflect the diversity of its present and future — not its past."
“The use of contempt is being used to get people to pay up, I would say that constitutes unlawful imprisonment for inability to pay.”
Access to the courts is now barred for more than 60 million American workers
Missouri stayed the execution of Marcellus Williams, but why was he sentenced to die in the first place?
Presidents have thought before that they could roll those wimpy-looking nerds with their gavels and robes. It usually doesn’t work out all that well.
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