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To Prison For Poverty by Brave New Films

Part one features the story of Hali Wood, a seventeen-year-old from Columbiana, Alabama who is deeply in debt to the private probation company, JCS. Part two introduces us to  Kathleen Hucks, a woman suing Sentinel Corrections Services for their abuse of power. 

 

(Produced in collaboration with the ACLU)

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