Martin v. City of Boise
Martin v. City of Boise, 920 F.3d 584 (9th Cir. 2019) This case has been effectively overruled by City of Grants Pass v. Jonson. This case concerns a series of …
Crime Survivors Speak: Texas Victims’ Experiences With Recovery and Views on Criminal Justice
In the past ten years, 41 percent of Texans have been a victim of crime. While the majority of victims describe their experience as traumatic, less than half felt supported …
Every Second: The Impact of Incarceration on America’s Families
Mass incarceration impacts not only incarcerated people but their families and communities. Approximately 113 million people have had an immediate family member incarcerated for at least one night, and 6.5 …
Criminal Justice Debt in the South: A Primer for the Southern Partnership to Reduce Debt
Criminal justice debt places a h eavy burden on low-income families, often making it harder for those who owe to earn a living, trapping them and their families in poverty. …
The Cost Trap: How Excessive Fees Lock Oklahomans Into the Criminal Justice System Without Boosting State Revenue
Oklahoma’s court system imposes fees for every type of case, and over the last two decades, those fees have grown enormously in both size and amount. Fees assessed on Oklahomans …
A Proposal to End Regressive Taxation Through Law Enforcement
Across the country, jurisdictions have repurposed their police officers into revenue-generating agents through the assessment and enforcement of fines, fees, and seizures. In addition to the economic and legal burdens, …
The Debt Penalty: Exposing the Financial Barriers to Offender Reintegration
Contact with the criminal legal system often results in the assessment of fines and fees. For people who are indigent or subject to other financial obligations such as child support …
As Court Fees Rise, The Poor Are Paying The Price
Many government services in the criminal justice system, which were once free, are now charged to defendants, many of which are low-income individuals who cannot afford them. By the 1980s, …
Shadow Citizens: Felony Disenfranchisement and The Criminalization of Debt
Many states infringe on individuals’ rights to vote; nearly 5.58 million Americans have lost the right to vote due to criminal convictions–many of them people of color and the poor. …
The Price To Call Home: State-Sanctioned Monopolization In The Prison Phone Industry
The monopolization of the prison phone industry has resulted in exorbitant prison phone call prices with companies promising to pay kickbacks to the state prison system in order to win …