In a new challenge to police practices in Ferguson, Mo., a group of civil rights lawyers is suing the city over the way people are jailed when they fail to pay fines for traffic tickets and other minor offenses.
The lawsuit [...] alleges that the city violates the Constitution by jailing people without adequately considering whether they were indigent and, as a result, unable to pay.
The suit is filed on behalf of 11 plaintiffs who say they were too poor to pay but were then jailed — sometimes for two weeks or more.
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It charges that Ferguson officials "have built a municipal scheme designed to brutalize, to punish, and to profit."
NPR
Monday, February 9, 2015
Mike Brown Legacy
Labels:
economic inequality,
Ferguson,
poverty,
prison,
US justice
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