Not a Crime to be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America
Date & time
Feb 1, 2018,
4:00-5:30 pm EST
Location
Free and open to the public. Reception to follow.About the book:In addition to exposing racially biased policing, the Justice Department’s Ferguson Report exposed to the world a system of fines and fees levied for minor crimes in Ferguson, Missouri, that, when they proved too expensive for Ferguson’s largely poor, African American population, resulted in jail sentences for thousands of people.
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