![]() ![]() To that end, Messenger outlines the stoyr of Brooke Bergen, who pled guilty to shoplifting an $8 tube of mascara in 2016 and was given a one-year suspended sentence, but violated her parole by missing a phone check-in. ![]() To make up for this shortfall, municipalities relied on revenue from traffic tickets, parolee drug testing, jail boarding fees, and increased bail. As a result of Republican promises to never raise taxes, Messenger notes, cities saw their budgets shrink alarmingly over the past few decades. ![]() Arguing that there are in fact two justice systems (“one for people with money, one for people without”), Messenger profiles individuals who have spent years in jail, or have fallen into serious debt, because an initial misdemeanor charge led to massive fines and escalating fees that they couldn’t pay. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist Messenger debuts with a heartbreaking study of how the American justice system is weighted against the poor. ![]()
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