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Case Advances Challenging “Debtors' Prison” for Non-Payment of Bond Supervision Fees in Texas
Class Actions, Bond Supervision Fees Teddy Basham-Witherington Class Actions, Bond Supervision Fees Teddy Basham-Witherington

Case Advances Challenging “Debtors' Prison” for Non-Payment of Bond Supervision Fees in Texas

Anderson County’s bond supervision fee is another example of criminalizing poverty, and another example of how Texas is a major civil rights battlefield right now. Ability to pay is not considered and not paying can mean jail time. In other words, pre-trial defendants can be incarcerated simply because they can’t afford a fee — a modern-day debtor’s prison.

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