In a lengthy rant, I talk about the criminalization of poverty, and how that leads to big profits for private prisons and other companies that exploit prison labor. On the other hand, if you're rich in America, you grin and ask for your bank to be fined. With enough money, a prison sentence isn't social death - it's a springboard for a senate run!
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/02/09/384968360/jail-time-for-unpaid-court-fines-and-fees-can-create-cycle-of-poverty
https://www.npr.org/series/313986316/guilty-and-charged
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/43412-jailing-the-poor-for-fines-and-bail-is-a-government-operated-loan-shark-operation
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/43453-yes-lots-of-people-go-to-jail-because-they-can-t-pay-a-fine
http://www.hcn.org/issues/49.8/how-the-booming-business-of-private-prisons-came-to-be
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2017/09/slavery-prison-system-170901082522072.html
https://www.npr.org/2018/01/30/581778796/er-use-goes-down-as-hospital-program-pays-homeless-peoples-rent
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/06/us/baltimore-police-corruption.html
https://www.wvgazettemail.com/opinion/gazette_opinion/op_ed_commentaries/troy-n-miller-it-was-never-about-the-drugs-and/article_674a982f-4639-5741-ba8c-a60bb9a3e872.html
http://www.businessinsider.com/jamie-dimon-said-he-could-afford-fines-2015-3
https://www.salon.com/2018/02/05/mick-mulvaneys-cfpb-gives-up-on-equifax-probe/
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/11/ex-con-coal-baron-don-blankenship-is-running-for-u-s-senate.html