Captive Money Lab

@CaptiveMoneyLab

Data, research, and advocacy on pay-to-stay, politics, and government finances | 🪙⚖️💰 Co-Founded by @curlyprofessor @aprilfernandes @gabrielamkirk1

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Captive Money Lab @CaptiveMoneyLab Apr 12, 2024

📢 New case study “Pay-to-Stay as Stategraft” published in Wisconsin Law Review is out today! Led by @gabrielamkirk1 It’s open-access and documents this practice, its harms, and legal challenges for legal scholars, legal aid advocates, and lawmakers.

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wlr.law.wisc.edu Pay-to-Stay as Stategraft Stategraft refers to the practice by which “state agents transfer property from persons to the state in violation of the state’s own laws or basic human rights.”1 Public officials engaging in...

Captive Money Lab @CaptiveMoneyLab May 26, 2024

Holding a ceremony to congratulate a child for overcoming the violence they inflicted on him and his family is perverse.

Debt is one of the leading causes of psychological distress in America.

philip lewis Verified account @Phil_Lewis_ May 25, 2024

A Missouri school district is honoring a fifth grader who raised enough money to pay off all of his school’s student lunch debt – $7,300

The Blue Springs School District has over $150,000 worth of school lunch debt wbaltv.com/article/blue-s…
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Captive Money Lab @CaptiveMoneyLab May 21, 2024

Lawsuit filed in Iowa by civil rights groups to block sheriff extracting money from people being released from jail
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www.publicjustice.net Lawsuit Filed to Block Sheriff Extracting Money from People Being Released from Jail to Pay for... FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, May 13, 2024 MEDIA CONTACTS: Nicole Funaro, Public Justice, Media Relations Strategist, nfunaro@publicjustice.net Veronica

Captive Money Lab @CaptiveMoneyLab May 11, 2024

The nexus of pay to stay and prison labor creates a cycle of extraction and forced indebtedness designed to enslave incarcerated people, their loved ones, and any communities they call home. #moderndayslavery

philip lewis Verified account @Phil_Lewis_ May 11, 2024

Inmates do billions of dollars of work for companies and governments each year.

A landmark trafficking lawsuit alleges many are being kept in prison because the business is just too good. The suit says it seeks “to abolish a modern day form of slavery” bloomberg.com/news/features/…
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Captive Money Lab @CaptiveMoneyLab May 4, 2024

When we investigated Florida back in 2019 we found that legal appeals challenging this practice were denied because judges claimed FL pay to stay law is designed to charge money based on one’s original sentence despite early release given criminal contact inconveniences the state

Black Millionaires ® Verified account @Blackmillions_ Apr 27, 2024

A law in Florida charges inmates $50 a day to stay in prison cells. Plunging them into lifelong debt. A woman who was sentenced to 7 years but only did 10 months still owes $127K and can’t work in her dream job even after graduating from college.

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