We’ve all heard the statement, “You do the crime, you do the time.” But many low-income people have to keep paying after they do their time. Monetary sanctions - fees and fines - are often imposed on those who’ve been convicted of crimes and when they can’t pay them back, the debt continues to grow. And costs can include everything from DNA storage to drug treatment to prison clothes to a daily charge for being in prison (and much more). We talk about how laws are driving people deeper into poverty--laws that are disproportionately impacting Black people and People of Color.  

Article: Poor People Pay for Criminal Justice System, Rutgers Study Finds

https://www.socialworktoday.com/news/dn_050119.shtml 

Linked in the Social Work Today article: Statutory Inequality: The Logics of Monetary Sanctions in State Law