Profit and Punishment: How America Criminalizes the Poor in the Name of Justice - Tony Messenger
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Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Messenger offers the first humane, journalistic expose of an American tragedy: Modern-day debtor’s prisons and how they’ve destroyed the lives of poor Americans.
His Pulitzer Prize winning series on debtors’ prisons in Missouri made a serious difference in real people’s lives and his book will be a must read for a nation seeking a bipartisan path forward on criminal justice reform.
–Claire McCaskill, former US Senator and analyst for MSNBC
Profit and Punishment is the most comprehensive look at the criminalization of poverty in the U.S., joining a growing and popular genre that is making a difference. It is Charged meets Evicted, focusing on that touchstone issue of the criminal justice reform movement: the insidious use of fines and fees to raise money for broken government budgets off the backs of the poor, and the partnership those governments have formed with for-profit companies that are getting rich on the backs of people incarcerated for minor crimes.
In a feat of exceptional reporting, Profit and Punishment reveals a familiar reality to the nation’s poor, anchored by the stories of three single mothers living in poverty, one in Oklahoma, one in Missouri, and one in South Carolina, who are abused by a judicial system more focused on debt collection than public safety.
All over the country, similar schemes are criminalizing the vulnerable and the poor, with the full support of politicians in both parties. The geography is Missouri, South Carolina, and Oklahoma. The story is American.
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This post has 10 comments with rating of 4.3/5
December 8th, 2021
Good book
December 8th, 2021
Nice.
December 8th, 2021
I say, let us have not such a machine any longer.
Good book.
December 8th, 2021
I say, let us have not such a machine any longer
December 8th, 2021
I say, let us not have such a machine any longer.
December 8th, 2021
you need to get out more, cklem240
December 8th, 2021
These poor people that just can’t help falling victim to the justice system seem to be nothing like those who surround me, they have agency and can choose whether to be criminal or not.
December 9th, 2021
The American justice system does not criminalize the poor, the poor commit disproportionately more crime than anyone else. There is a causal relationship between making bad decisions that keep you poor and committing crime. They stem from the same flawed thinking. To quote Jim Carrey: “STOP BREAKING THE LAW, ASHHOLE!”
December 10th, 2021
@lisava995
Oh it definitely does, and more than that. It uses them as a resource to exploit, which is a substantial reason why most of the crime takes place. Read your Gary Webb and Doug Valentine.
Here’s a decent recap as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDQjtRufr3M&t=6s
December 15th, 2021
Thanks so much for this!
For those who live in the ivory tower and can’t be bothered to learn the reality of US justice system just search “john oliver explains the american criminal justice system” on youtube. Here is one as a starter https://youtu.be/0UjpmT5noto
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