Profit and Punishment How America Criminalizes the Poor in the Name of Justice

Tony Messenger, Karen Chilton

eAudio - 2021

In Profit and Punishment, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist exposes the tragedy of modern-day debtors prisons, and how they destroy the lives of poor Americans swept up in a system designed to penalize the most impoverished."Intimate, raw, and utterly scathing" — Heather Ann Thompson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Blood in the Water"Crucial evidence that the justice system is broken and has to be fixed. Please read this book." —James Patterson, #1 New York Times bestselling authorAs a columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Tony Messenger has spent years in county and municipal courthouses documenting how poor Americans are convicted of minor crimes and then saddled with exorbitant fines and fees. If they are... unable to pay, they are often sent to prison, where they are then charged a pay-to-stay bill, in a cycle that soon creates a mountain of debt that can take years to pay off. These insidious... more