Every year in the US, 2 million people are sent to jail because they cannot afford to pay a court fine or fee.
We work to end debt-based incarceration.
“For some people, it becomes a choice: pay the fine or feed their family.”
- WFAA, Demond Fernandez
“In my opinion, it’s debtors’ prison… How is this the United States, where we’re supposed to have more freedoms than anywhere else in the world, and we’re incarcerating people for not having money?”
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Charles Anderson stands in his mother's yard on July 7, the day after he was released from the Marion County Jail. (Connor Sheets)
[7] WARRANTS CANCELED TO DATE
[7] WARRANTS CANCELED TO DATE