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Sharing our court watch observations at a conference on CA fines & fees policy
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The problem, fundamentally, isn’t that the rates are unfair. It’s that we shouldn’t raise revenues this way—Mitali Nagrecha,
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While we’re looking at statewide legislation to end criminal fees, there are many counties that have already taken important action and LA could become one of them, says Stephanie Campos-Bui of
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Our courts have turned into "revenue centers." Is that really what we want our courts to be? -- asks Martin Hoshino, from the California Judicial Council
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The government has a responsibility to balance it’s budget, but whose backs are they budgeting it on? -
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Government should pay for government work, not low-income communities of color targeted by the carceral system. -
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We're back!
@SenHJMitchell delivering keynote at today's conference#sb144#sb190#debtfreejustice -
A few highlights from
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Breaking out for break out sessions. Will be back tweeting and streaming soon and continuing the conversation on
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@Beth_Colgan: Abolition movement is gaining traction. It changes the benchmark. You don’t even need to buy into that concept to imagine what the work would look like.#feeabolition#debtfreejusticePrikaži ovu nit -
Angelique Evans says
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1/5 of people ordered to perform community service to work off fees/fines in
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@Beth_Colgan reminds us it is unconstitutional to revoke someone's probation for willful non payment.#letsgetfreela#debtfreejustice -
Learning more with community about devastating modern-day “debtors prisons” aka the never ending system of punishment and servitude known as excessive fines and fees AND planning how we will end them together!
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“Community service substitutes the extraction of labor for the extraction of cash....[and] the greater the threat of jail is for nonpayment, the more that wages get driven down.”
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@NoahZatz 1/5 of the sample of LA County cases faced probation revocation for failure to complete community service.#letsgetfreela#debtfreejustice -
@NoahZatz reminds us that court-ordered community service is a descendant of Jim Crow debt peonage. Using debt as an alternative to jail to force people to work.#letsgetfreela#debtfreejustice -
“From a lawyer’s perspective, having [fees] makes it harder to serve our clients...this is something that affects all of the people in our community and we can do a lot better.” Meredith Gallen, Deputy Public Defender
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Everyone is excited for our symposium on Fines & Fees Policy in CA today! Follow
@CaDebtJustice for live tweets.#DebtFreeJustice#LetsGetFreeLApic.twitter.com/qwIS6jZDmS – mjesto: UCLA Labor Center
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Meredith Gallen with the Los Angeles Public Defenders Union: judges, prosecutors, court staff think of fines and fees as just a minor consequence when really they are a punishment.
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