To Prison for Poverty - Part One • BRAVE NEW FILMS: JUSTICE
This is the story of Hali Wood, a seventeen-year-old from Columbiana, Alabama who is deeply in debt to the private probation company, JCS. To learn more go to http://www.bravenewfilms.org/topriso...
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This is an everyday thing.I probably don't have enough gas. And the starter's gone out on it, so, you gotta dothis every time you want to leave in that car.And we was just going to the gas station. They pulled us over and they wrote me a seatbelt ticket, and it came out to be $41. I didn't have no money to pay, so they chargedme $10 to put me on JCS probation. And JCS it's... I don't get why they're in the picture-this is between me and the courts, not another business.There is an entire industry devoted to making money off of people who can't pay. Normallyan offender is put on probation to make sure that they're not posing a threat to publicsafety. If they're not going to be put into prison. ...
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This is an everyday thing.I probably don't have enough gas. And the starter's gone out on it, so, you gotta dothis every time you want to leave in that car.And we was just going to the gas station. They pulled us over and they wrote me a seatbelt ticket, and it came out to be $41. I didn't have no money to pay, so they chargedme $10 to put me on JCS probation. And JCS it's... I don't get why they're in the picture-this is between me and the courts, not another business.There is an entire industry devoted to making money off of people who can't pay. Normallyan offender is put on probation to make sure that they're not posing a threat to publicsafety. If they're not going to be put into prison. ...
