Profit and Punishment: How America Criminalizes the Poor in the Name of Justice by Messenger, Tony
Profit and Punishment: How America Criminalizes the Poor in the Name of Justice by Messenger, Tony

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

In Profit and Punishment, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist exposes the tragedy of modern-day debtors prisons, and how...
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Profit and Punishment: How America Criminalizes the Poor in the Name of Justice by Messenger, Tony

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

$40.34
Profit and Punishment: How America Criminalizes the Poor in the Name of Justice by Messenger, Tony

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

$40.34
Author: Tony Messenger
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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 author

As 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 penalties are used to raise money for broken local and state budgets, often overseen by for-profit companies, and it is one of the central issues of the criminal justice reform movement.

Profit and Punishment is a call to arms, shining a light on a two-tiered system invisible to most Americans. Messenger introduces readers to three single mothers caught up in this system: living in poverty in Missouri, Oklahoma, and South Carolina, whose lives are upended when minor offenses become monumental financial and personal catastrophes. As these women struggle to clear their debt and move on with their lives, readers meet the dogged civil rights advocates and lawmakers fighting by their side to create a more equitable and fair court of justice. In this remarkable feat of reporting, Tony Messenger exposes injustice that is agonizing and infuriating in its mundane cruelty, as he champions the rights and dignity of some of the most vulnerable Americans.

Author: Tony Messenger
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: 02/27/2024
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.40w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781250792976
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