03.04.2015 - 19:30 [ Truthout ]

The Silence Surrounding Alabama‘s Debtors‘ Prisons

If you were wealthy enough to pay your fine in Clanton you surely did so as quickly as you could and probably had nothing to do with the private probationers. But if you didn‘t have enough money, and many defendants didn‘t, you routinely were dispatched to a form of third-world justice system.