Debtors' Prisons
Lawsuit alleges the city of Florissant was running a "modern debtors' prison scheme" and locking the poor in jail over minor municipal code violations.
The court system in the town of Sherwood is destroying the lives of poor people, a new federal lawsuit alleges.
Cities outside St. Louis have created "a modern day police state and debtors’ prison scheme that has no place in American society today."
"People of color are disproportionately targeted."
