Criminal Justice
Court fees and fines unjustly burden debtors
$8.7 billion. That’s the staggering amount of criminal justice fees and fines Texas’ criminal courts have imposed on defendants between 2012 and 2018. That may look like a windfall to the state, but imposing a fee or a fine shouldn’t be confused with actually collecting them. A recent study by the Brennan Center for Justice...
December 9, 2019