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

English | ASIN: B08TYBLTTL | 2021 | 8 hours and 18 minutes |MP3|M4B | 228 MB
Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Messenger offers the first humane, journalistic expose of an American tragedy: modern-day debtor's prisons and how they've destroyed the lives of poor Americans. Profit and Punishment is the most comprehensive look at the criminalization of poverty in the US, joining a growing and popular genre that is making a difference. It is Charged meets Evicted, focusing on that touchstone issue of the criminal justice reform movement: the insidious use of fines and fees to raise money for broken government budgets off the backs of the poor, and the partnership those governments have formed with for-profit companies that are getting rich on the backs of people incarcerated for minor crimes.