Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Fees, Fines, and Debt: How Governments and Companies are Jailing Poor People to Make a Buck

Fees, Fines, and Debt: How Governments and Companies are Jailing Poor People to Make a Buck This week’s St. Louis Patch dispatch reported this story: Wakita Shaw’s troubles started with a $425 payday loan, the kind of high-interest, short-term debt that seldom [...]/p