In one of the richest countries on Earth it has effectively become a crime to be poor. For example, in Ferguson, Missouri, the U.S. Department of Justice didn't just expose racially biased policing; it also exposed exorbitant fines and fees for minor crimes that mainly hit the city's poor, African American population, resulting in jail by the thousands. As Peter Edelman explains in Not a Crime to Be Poor, in fact Ferguson is everywhere: the debtors' prisons of the twenty-first century.
| Author: Peter Edelman |
| Publisher: The New Press |
| Publication Date: July 02, 2019 |
| Number of Pages: 320 pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Paperback |
| ISBN-10: 1620975483 |
| ISBN-13: 9781620975480 |