The Debt Penalty: Punishing the Poor Beyond Incarceration.

'Sociologist Alexes Harris examines the social costs of the legal system's web of financial punishments - from the network of fines and fees that keep the poor in contact with and under control of the law enforcement and courts, to an increasing reliance on policing to make up municipal budgets - and explains how the system of monetary sanctions expands the racial and class inequalities already at the foundation of the American criminal justice system. Harris is author of A Pound of Flesh: Monetary Sanctions as Punishment for the Poor from the Russell Sage Foundation.' -- ThisIsHell!