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Single Moms Get Sucked Into the Cruelest Debtors’ Prison

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Single Moms Get Sucked Into the Cruelest Debtors’ Prison We’ve Ever Seen

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In Lexington County, SC, moms struggling to make ends meet get jailed for weeks or months at a time when they can’t afford to pay court fines and fees.

Twanda Marshinda Brown is a single mom in South Carolina who was supporting her children by working at Burger King. In 2016, a court in Lexington County fined her around $2,300 for two traffic offenses. The judge ordered her to make monthly payments of $100, even though she explained she could only afford to pay $50 a month while taking care of her family. Continue reading.

 

 

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