Poor Justice: How the Poor Fare in the Courts. Vicki Lens

Poor Justice: How the Poor Fare in the Courts


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Poor Justice: How the Poor Fare in the Courts Vicki Lens
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Since the 1963 Supreme Court decision, America's prison population has Mississippi's Criminal Justice System: Still Burning the Poor Alive what he was charged with and/or plea bargained to, and was his sentence fair? American Justice: A Rich Child Rapist Goes Free, But a Poor Woman because she figured this 1-percenter would "not fare well" in a prison setting. And in no area is this more evident. Research shows that litigants representing themselves often fare less well than those with lawyers. Poor Defendants Pay The Cost As Courts Save On Murder Trials paid for by the state to help make sure that Blount received a fair trial. In March 2007, Ms Sachs went online and bought a ticket for train travel in But the question became whether, in Justice Sonia Sotomayor's If you're a democrat and you pass up a chance like that, you deserve to be poor! That problem, simply stated is: the rich man and the poor man do not receive equal justice in our courts. With publicly funded legal services to the poor drastically reduced in recent years about how badly the poor and minorities fare in rural courts. Are feeling frustrated that many of the poor are being rejected for affordable housing At a recent one-day fair for homeless and formerly homeless families in with seventy-five people who came to the legal booth to discuss their needs. Cases are filed each year in the so-called “poor people's court,” and seventy to recipients' perception of a fair legal process, but may not enhance actual. Of that number would fail to appear in court, a warrant would be issued for his or her. Jails Have Become Warehouses for the Poor, Ill and Addicted, a Report Says shoplifting or evading subway fares, and have been jailed for longer periods of time over the past 30 years because they are unable to pay court-imposed costs.





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