To Prison For Poverty • SHORT DOCUMENTARY • BRAVE NEW FILMS
Private probation companies charge excessive fees to low income people who can't pay small fines like traffic tickets. If they can't pay, they go to jail. SUBSCRIBE: http://www.youtube.com/subscri...
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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....
