TO JAIL FOR POVERTY

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you don't shop Mopar management
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ago
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this never
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am yep I'll have enough gas
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starters go now to have it so you gotta do that every time you leaving the harp
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and we'll just go into the gas station
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that put us over and well may say that to get
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and cannot be forty one dollars I don't have no money to pay so they charge me
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to embellish the put me on JCS
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probation and jesse is it
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I don't get why they're in the picture this is between me and the courts not
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another the another business there is
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on in higher industry devoted to making money
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of the people who campaigned normally an offender is put on probation
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to make sure that they're not posing a threat to public safety
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if they're not going to be put into prison but we see about a court's really
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just hiring probation companies because they want to hire a debt collector in
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calling it probation judicial correction services is a
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private companies that allegedly provides private probation services
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essentially there a collection agency private probation companies
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don't charge the courts they work for instead the bill the people they
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supervise directly
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in fees every month if they're on probation that's how they make profit we
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found widespread abuses
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plaguing this whole industry ignoring evidence that people are actually making
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hero efforts to pay down their debts
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not many all being poor
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has never been a crime from this country and yet we are still trying people to
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prison for owing money and not paying it back
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I've heard people going to jail for not paying our bomb
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not one thing around here that will be gene in jail
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way not pain remains I will come get you
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from act like you're not paint out probation is supposed to be a way to
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keep people out of prison you don't really belong there
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private probation really turns all that on its head
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it essentially a debtor's prison pretty much
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shower and communism there and just about everybody I know has helped a UN
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stay or go into it
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the air time to get a course like a family reunion one of the really
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perverse things is that
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often the poorest communities are the best markets for them
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in a place where people really struggle people wind up on probation in large
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numbers and for very long periods of time
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and not translate into big money in fees for probation companies
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so one profit becomes the driving force civil rights get thrown under the bus
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past
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that as far as I can get it from the inside out have to have her help getting
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dressed way
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commander is a very small town
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this is a lot and Landon realms
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and then like what stores we do have there's
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not really that made Baba plowed for
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Fred Piggly Wiggly target
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how would love to have a job on Islam not broke all the time
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JCS adzone thirty-five dollars every minute even if you're making progress on
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it or not
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so most impossible when you need r17 with no income
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with my mom and my sisters and my two nephews and
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my mom is on disability she pays all the bills and if she can give me anything
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else you will give me a little bit too but don't want to give but
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as usually not much left yeah
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twenty dollars very hard to come by and what you get four dollars
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something like that around here usually you for that big ass to get where you
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need to be
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we're looking at offenders who would not be on probation at all if they had more
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money
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being wined up actually paying more than the person that means overtime
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and is faced with the continual risk of incarceration if they fall behind on
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their payments
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here is the actual take it I got a paid ten dollars
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phase thirty-five dollars and on ballots forty one dollars
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and it shows that it meant towards Mathys &
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math Banstead this I'm this when I hear showed up at another ten dollars
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shows that the Phillies went down but the
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bannister forty one dollars I've told the judge that
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have the money to pay for the ticket and I could afford to miss the babies
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and he said that that wasn't his problem that I could just about forty one
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dollars
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towards the alleged
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and then I had another one that shows I paid forty one dollars even
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and the fan has not been touched not worn Tom all the money of paid
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see this paper right here
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it says a payment is needed if you fail to appear a warrant will be issued for
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your arrest
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a lot of companies in the private probation industry
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are run by people who are former law enforcement
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JCS is run by a man named Robert mcmichael
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who is a former Shera
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and US Marshal and there's no question that those connections often pave the
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way to them getting
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that they get
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the system is horribly broken can't pay
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your poor you gonna be placed in the hands and JCS
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threatened with jail and many times jail 102 people locked up thousand people
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every month Alabama because they can simply failing to pay they own tech
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portable CD player
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go to jail them in jail that mean refusing to pay eighty
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does not play in New York Times photo there are real constitutional issues at
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stake
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there too federal lawsuits that are going on
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yes JCS we're challenging their whole system the fact that
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these people were in danger that they were forced to pay additional pylons
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and then welcome in jail because they couldn't pay these funds that were
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demanded by JCS
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I have to go back to core and
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I have to figure out how to come up with half a bit Robin and I cannot leave the
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building till I do
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or I will be locked up I'm not trying to get him a ticket I was guilty