New Orleans Sitting in the jury pool in Orleans Parish Criminal Court and watching each case tainted by a touch with drugs and the huge waste of police and court resources and being force to think for hours at a time about exactly what I thought about the huge divisions and lack of security in the …
Month: July 2012
Modern American Debtors’ Prisons
New Orleans Lord please help the poor, because in America these days it has become a crime to be poor! Local jails are becoming debtors prisons thanks to the fact that local courts, where justice is rumored rather than meted out it seems, in many areas have outsourced fines and fees leaving people with a …
A Break in the Remittance Campaign Comes from the Somalian Hawala Crisis!
New Orleans ACORN International’s Remittance Justice Campaign has begun to pick up steam. A private member’s bill to cap rates has now been introduced in Queen’s Park for the Ontario provincial government. Similar efforts are being pushed in British Columbia and later this year legislators have committed to introducing measures in Honduras and perhaps …