Completely pay off. When a fine is not fine. Its the inside story. Welcome to inside story. Im ray suarez. Theres a lot of stuff that goes on in this country away from the gaze of americas middle class and above. And a punitive system of local Law Enforcement weighs heavily on those who barely have the money to meet it. The homeowner may face a heavy fine. Look, it happens. You break the law, but this system of collection, jail time, and balances and fees that grow even when youre paying them off, lands particularly heavy on low income people, and it can unravel their lives. Heres aljazeeras jonathan martin. A single mother of two teens. Its a constant struggle to make ends meet. She takes home less than 700 a month in biloxi city, and its making her life harder. Its not right to jail people for something that they cant pay. In july, kennedy was the passenger in a car that the police pulled over for running a stop sign. When the officer checked her i. D. , he found that kennedy had an
In some jurisdictions its a 21st century bondage, chasing a fine that you can never completely pay off. When a fine is not fine. Its the inside story. Welcome to inside story. Im ray suarez. Theres a lot of stuff that goes on in this country away from the gaze of americas middle class and above. And a punitive system of local Law Enforcement weighs heavily on those who barely have the money to meet it. The homeowner may face a heavy fine. Look, it happens. You break the law, but this system of collection, jail time, and balances and fees that grow even when youre paying them off, lands particularly heavy on low income people, and it can unravel their lives. Heres aljazeeras jonathan martin. A single mother of two teens. Its a constant struggle to make ends meet. She takes home less than 700 a month in biloxi city, and its making her life harder. Its not right to jail people for something that they cant pay. In july, kennedy was the passenger in a car that the police pulled over for run
A fine that you can never completely pay off. When a fine is not fine. Its the inside story. Welcome to inside story. Im ray suarez. Theres a lot of stuff that goes on in this country away from the gaze of americas middle class and above. And a punitive system of local Law Enforcement weighs heavily on those who barely have the money to meet it. The homeowner may face a heavy fine. Look, it happens. You break the law, but this system of collection, jail time, and balances and fees that grow even when youre paying them off, lands particularly heavy on low income people, and it can unravel their lives. Heres aljazeeras jonathan martin. A single mother of two teens. Its a constant struggle to make ends meet. She takes home less than 700 a month in biloxi city, and its making her life harder. Its not right to jail people for something that they cant pay. In july, kennedy was the passenger in a car that the police pulled over for running a stop sign. When the officer checked her i. D. , he
Pbs newshour weekend is made possible by Corporate Funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios in Lincoln Center in new york Hari Sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening. Thanks for joining us. Its monday morning in asia and the search for a missing airasia jetliner carrying 162 people is resuming. The airbus disappeared from radar screens about 40 minutes after taking off from indonesia on route to singapore. The newshours zachary green has more on the investigation. Reporter at Singapores Changi airport, friends and relatives gathered to await news about airasia flight 8501, which disappeared early this morning. Among those waiting, the fiance of a young man who had been traveling with relatives. translat
Pbs newshour weekend is made possible by Corporate Funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios in Lincoln Center in new york Hari Sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening. Thanks for joining us. Its monday morning in asia and the search for a missing airasia jetliner carrying 162 people is resuming. The airbus disappeared from radar screens about 40 minutes after taking off from indonesia on route to singapore. The newshours zachary green has more on the investigation. Reporter at Singapores Changi airport, friends and relatives gathered to await news about airasia flight 8501, which disappeared early this morning. Among those waiting, the fiance of a young man who had been traveling with relatives. translat