california Good news: California ends cash bail! Bad news: It's been replaced with a black-box algorithm. Cory Doctorow

video Powerful film on how Bronx Freedom Fund rescues those who can't afford bail Andrea James

trumpism Jeff Sessions encourages courts to continue practice of fining poor people for being too poor to pay their fines Cory Doctorow

class war The blacker a city is, the more it fines its residents (especially black ones) Cory Doctorow

class war American towns survive by fining poor people, and use debtors' prisons to make them pay Cory Doctorow

corruption The American Conservative: "The Dickensian Return of Debtors’ Prisons" Cory Doctorow

law States suspend your driver's license over inability to pay court fines, costing you your job and any ability to repay Cory Doctorow

finance Billions of dollars' worth of predatory student loans may… just… vanish Cory Doctorow

crime How racist traffic stops criminalize black people, and what to do about it Cory Doctorow