Bail and Debt: Ideas for a longer paper assignment

I was thinking of excerpting this or giving it as a handout for students who are ready to write a longer paper. . . https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/08/magazine/cities-fine-poor-jail.html

and including some resources like this:

https://bailproject.org/

https://www.aclu.org/issues/racial-justice/race-and-criminal-justice/debtors-prisons

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