Justice Department Warns Courts to Stop Targeting Poor People for Money
The Justice Department on Monday urged state judges nationwide to end unconstitutional policies of jailing low-income people as a way to collect fines and debt.
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Justice Dept. Collects Only a Teeny Fraction of Swindlers’ Fines
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Since the year 2000, the government has only collected about two cents on the dollar from hundreds of the nation’s biggest swindlers who were fined by federal judges, USA Today reports. A USA Today reported that its analysis of Justice Department records shows the difficulty of the Justice Department collecting fines…