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02296aam a2200349 i 4500 001 FDFA593E199211EFAA2C9EE853ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240524010037 008 240227r20242021nyu b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9781250792976 020 $a 1250792975 035 $a (OCoLC)1375540157 040 $a YDX $b eng $c YDX $e rda $d BTCAT $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 082 04 $a 362.5/5610973 $q OCoLC $2 23/eng/20231120 100 1 $a Messenger, Tony, $e author. 245 10 $a Profit and punishment : $b how America criminalizes the poor in the name of justice / $c Tony Messenger. 246 30 $a How America criminalizes the poor in the name of justice 264 1 $a New York : $b St. Martin's Griffin, $c [2024] 300 $a xxvi, 244 pages ; $c 23 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a By the numbers -- Prologue: The poverty penalty -- Going to Court. The arrest -- Taxation by citation -- No sale of justice -- Failure to pay -- Debtors' Prison . Pay to stay -- The key to the jailhouse door -- Judges vs. judges -- Path to Freedom. The courthouse -- The capitol -- The Koch brothers meet the ACLU -- A tale of two letters -- Epilogue: Poverty is relative. 520 $a "As a columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Tony Messenger has spent years in county and municipal courthouses documenting how poor Americans are convicted of minor crimes and then saddled with exorbitant fines and fees. If they are unable to pay, they are often sent to prison, where they are then charged a pay-to-stay bill, in a cycle that soon creates a mountain of debt that can take years to pay off. These insidious penalties are used to raise money for broken local and state budgets, often overseen by for-profit companies, and it is one of the central issues of the criminal justice reform movement."--Provided by the publisher. 650 0 $a Poverty $x Government policy $z United States. 650 0 $a Poor $x Government policy $z United States. 650 0 $a Criminal justice, Administration of $z United States. 650 0 $a Imprisonment $z United States. 650 0 $a Equality $z United States. 650 0 $a Civil rights. 941 $a 1 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20240524011037.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=FDFA593E199211EFAA2C9EE853ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search