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snooper2

(30,151 posts) Wed Aug 17, 2016, 10:21 AM Aug 2016

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Debtors' Prisons: Life Inside America’s For-Profit Justice System (Part 1/2)

VICE

Published on Aug 16, 2016
VICE’s Justice series examines the winners and losers of the for-profit criminal justice system. Imprisoning people for being poor has technically been illegal in this country for two hundred years, but it is still a reality. Municipalities with small, low-income populations and correspondingly low tax bases regularly pay their salaries, and pad their budgets by issuing “quality of life” and traffic fines to people for minor offenses—and sending them to jail if they can’t pay.

VICE examines the ways these local governments have turned broken-windows policing into profit, and meets the people who are fighting back.

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Debtors' Prisons: Life Inside America’s For-Profit Justice System (Part 1/2) (Original Post) snooper2 Aug 2016 OP

Thank you for posting this. Could you add a link? cali Aug 2016 #1

The video is the link- Reporting from VICE, the last real news organization snooper2 Aug 2016 #2

ah, thank you. cali Aug 2016 #3

cali

(114,904 posts)

1. Thank you for posting this. Could you add a link?

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Wed Aug 17, 2016, 10:22 AM

Aug 2016

snooper2

(30,151 posts)

2. The video is the link- Reporting from VICE, the last real news organization

Reply to cali (Reply #1)

Wed Aug 17, 2016, 10:27 AM

Aug 2016

cali

(114,904 posts)

3. ah, thank you.

Reply to snooper2 (Reply #2)

Wed Aug 17, 2016, 10:29 AM

Aug 2016

I agree that VICE does actual investigative reporting- now a sadly rare commodity.

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