by Stanley Augustin | Mar 25, 2019 | Newsclips
The Brookings Institution held a discussion to examine ways to make changes to the criminal justice system’s use of fees, finesm and bail. Experts and advocates in this panel focused on the impact of the bail system on the poor and minorities.
by Don Owens | Mar 21, 2019 | Blog
By The Criminal Justice Project When 33-year old Amanda Ackerson Feenstra—a working wife and mother of seven from Claremore, Oklahoma—pleaded guilty to false personation, forgery, identity theft, and conspiracy charges in 2015, the presiding judge ordered her to pay...
by Stanley Augustin | Mar 20, 2019 | Publications, Resources
Prison population rates, of which the United States has the highest in the world, are often cited as a defining feature of mass incarceration. Incarceration rates in local jails, however, are a lesser known but significant catalyst for mass incarceration. On any given...
by Stanley Augustin | Mar 20, 2019 | Newsclips
As she was released from a juvenile detention facility in 2013, Tulsa teenager Sharonica Carter still was facing a $2,700 fine imposed when Carter first pleaded guilty in 2011. Five years and two jail stays later, the amount that Carter now owes totals $5,000. On...
by Stanley Augustin | Mar 17, 2019 | Newsclips
The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law has issued a new report on the punishing nature of fine systems in Arkansas courts that impoverish and jail people trapped with never-ending payments for “process” infractions. The report is said to...
