Debtors' Prisons: Life Inside America’s For-Profit Justice System (Part 2/2)
August 17, 2016
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as posted by the channelIn part two of VICE's investigation into modern-day debtor's prison practices, we explore the phenomenon of private probation companies. To avoid paying for probation services, thousands of courts currently outsource probation to for-profit companies which charge people exorbitant fees for their own probation. Failure to pay is treated as a violation of probation, punishable by jail time, which extorts cash from already-struggling people.
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VICE meets Thomas Barrett, a formerly homeless man who paid thousands in probation fees over the theft of a two-dollar can of beer.
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