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VICE’s Justice series examines the winners and losers of the for-profit criminal justice system. Imprisoning people for being poor has technically been illegal in this country for two hundred years, but it is still a reality. Municipalities with small, low-income populations and correspondingly low tax bases regularly pay their salaries, and pad their budgets by issuing “quality of life” and traffic fines to people for minor offenses-and sending them to jail if they can’t pay.
VICE examines the ways these local governments have turned broken-windows policing into profit, and meets the people who are fighting back.
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