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 they destroy the lives of poor Americans swept up in a system designed to penalize the most impoverished. "His Pulitzer Prize winning series on debtors' prisons in Missouri made...

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Main Author:	Messenger, Tony (Author)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : St. Martin's Press, 2021.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Poverty > Government policy > United States. Poor > Government policy > United States. Criminal justice, Administration of > United States.
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