Nick Barber is a freelance writer in New York and Georgia, with a focus on incarceration, criminalization, and punishment.
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In Small-Town Georgia, A Broken Taillight Can Lead to Spiraling Debt
Reforms to curb predatory private probation haven’t worked.
Nick Barber