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Fees, Fines, and Debt: How Governments and Companies
are Jailing Poor People to Make a Buck

post from ThinkProgress on 22 August 2012 01:10:00 PM. © ThinkProgress

Our Guest Blogger is Inimai Chettiar, a Leadership Fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund and Director of the Justice Program at the Brennan Center for Justice. This week?s St. Louis Patch dispatch reported this story: Wakita Shaw’s troubles started with a $425 payday loan, the kind of high-interest, short-term debt that seldom [...]

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