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#61: Fighting the Criminalization of Poverty
Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:48:28
Publish Date: 2017-09-05 01:00:00
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After Ferguson, investigations revealed that the entire criminal justice system in St. Louis County – not just the police department – levied massive amounts of fines and fees on its poorest citizens in order to fund itself.  It was a wake-up call, but one organization was already there working on these very issues.

Thomas Harvey is the co-founder and executive director of Arch City Defenders.

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