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Past Due: Examining the Costs and Consequences of Charging for Justice in New Orleans

This report documents the amount New Orleans residents pay in bail, fines and fees, traces where the money goes, and calculates how much the city spends to jail people who cannot pay.

High Pain, No Gain: How Juvenile Administrative Fees Harm Low-Income Families in Alameda County, California

At the time this report was written, by California law, counties were authorized to recoup the costs of their juvenile justice systems by charging administrative fees to juvenile defendants and their families. This policy report takes a close look at Alameda County’s system of administrative fees.

Why Motive Matters: Designing Effective Policy Responses to Modern Debtors’ Prisons

In this essay, Marsh and Gerrick challenge the most common justification for why debtors’ prisons still exist in present-day America: generating revenue to fund local government and courts. The authors argue that revenue generation is an “incomplete explanation” for debtor’s prisons and point to a variety of other factors that could help complete the picture.

Cost-Benefit Analysis

Past Due: Examining the Costs and Consequences of Charging for Justice in New Orleans

High Pain, No Gain: How Juvenile Administrative Fees Harm Low-Income Families in Alameda County, California

Why Motive Matters: Designing Effective Policy Responses to Modern Debtors’ Prisons

Who Pays? The True Cost of Incarceration on Families

Municipal Violations: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

Unified But Not Uniform: Judicial Funding Issues in Alabama

US: For-Profit Probation Tramples Rights of Poor

The Hidden Costs of Florida’s Criminal Justice Fees

The Assessment and Consequences of Legal Financial Obligations in Washington State