Fines, fees and debt-based jailing
Court debt that turns a fine into a jail sentence for the people least able to pay.
Fees attach at every stage — filing, representation, supervision, electronic monitoring — and non-payment is enforced with the threat of custody. The result is a two-tier system where the identical offence costs one person money and another person their liberty.
Working on this already? Tell us where — we would rather connect you to people doing the same thing than start something parallel.