To Prison for Poverty - Part Two • BRAVE NEW FILMS: JUSTICE
Meet Kathleen Hucks, a woman suing Sentinel Corrections Services for their abuse of power. To learn more go to http://www.bravenewfilms.org/toprisonforpoverty Set up a free screening of...
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Georgia passed a law transferring probation services to the counties -and that allowedthem to privatize their probation services for misdemeanor crimes.Put behind bars for being poor. That's how a group of local attorneys described arrestwarrants requested by Sentinel Offender Services for misdemeanor offenders.We're all basically low income. We live paycheck to paycheck. My husband and I, we've beenmarried 32 years. We have two daughters, and that's my younger daughter when she was probablyabout five. In 2006 I was pulled over for DUI. I was sentenced to Colombia County, Isat there for eight months. Sentinel put me on two years probation. 2008, my probationwas over. I paid my fine. In 2012, Labor Day Weekend, a police officer pulled in.I was...
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Georgia passed a law transferring probation services to the counties -and that allowedthem to privatize their probation services for misdemeanor crimes.Put behind bars for being poor. That's how a group of local attorneys described arrestwarrants requested by Sentinel Offender Services for misdemeanor offenders.We're all basically low income. We live paycheck to paycheck. My husband and I, we've beenmarried 32 years. We have two daughters, and that's my younger daughter when she was probablyabout five. In 2006 I was pulled over for DUI. I was sentenced to Colombia County, Isat there for eight months. Sentinel put me on two years probation. 2008, my probationwas over. I paid my fine. In 2012, Labor Day Weekend, a police officer pulled in.I was...
