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2021 Driving Injustice: Consequences and Disparities in North Carolina Legal and Traffic Debt

An increase in fines, fees, and license suspension for traffic tickets, infractions, and misdemeanors has created a vicious cycle of court debt. People who do not pay their debt within …

Reimagining local public finance: Equitable Reform of taxes, fines and fees

While the American Recovery Plan Act provides local governors flexible funds to replace revenue lost due to the pandemic, local governments should take this opportunity not just to replace revenues, …

The predatory dimensions of criminal justice

Throughout American history, criminal justice has played a critical role in resource extraction from slave patrols to convict leasing, chain gangs and exploitative debt, credit and labor arrangements. Today, as …

Cato’s Project on Poverty and Inequality in California: Final Report

California has the largest economy of any state and a gross domestic product of almost $3 trillion. However, before the pandemic, 17.2 percent of the state population lived below the …

Fines Prevent Too Many People From Voting In Florida

In 2018, Floridians approved the constitutional amendment to restore voting rights to nearly everyone with a criminal record upon completion of their sentence. 1.4 million people became eligible to vote …

Why Inequitable And Burdensome Court-Issued Fines And Fees Are A Health Issue—And What Health And Policy Leaders Can Do About It

Social determinants like court debt can negatively influence an individual’s health. Through healthcare hotspotting, the Rutgers Law School/Camden Coalition, Medical-Legal Partnership (MLP) serves individuals with various medical and legal issues …

Collateral Consequences

2021 Driving Injustice: Consequences and Disparities in North Carolina Legal and Traffic Debt

Reimagining local public finance: Equitable Reform of taxes, fines and fees

The predatory dimensions of criminal justice

Cato’s Project on Poverty and Inequality in California: Final Report

Fines Prevent Too Many People From Voting In Florida

Why Inequitable And Burdensome Court-Issued Fines And Fees Are A Health Issue—And What Health And Policy Leaders Can Do About It

Dismantling Policing for Profit: How to Build on Missouri’s Post-Ferguson Court Reforms

Step One to an Antiracist State Revenue Policy: Eliminate Criminal Justice Fees and Reform Fines

Driven by Debt: The Failure of the OmniBase Program

D.C. parking, traffic tickets snowball into financial hardships