Tuesday, December 26, 2017

Jeff Sessions encourages courts to continue practice of fining poor people for being too poor to pay their fines 24 hours ago

Boing Boing

In 2016, the Obama DoJ issued guidance to US courts telling them to cease the practice of levying fines on poor people that exceeded their means to pay, especially fines for failure to pay earlier fines. This week, Trump Attorney General Jeff Sessions reversed that order.

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