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High Pain, No Gain: How Juvenile Administrative Fees Harm Low-Income Families In Alameda County, California, Jeffrey Selbin
High Pain, No Gain: How Juvenile Administrative Fees Harm Low-Income Families In Alameda County, California, Jeffrey Selbin
Jeffrey Selbin
National attention is focused on racial and economic discrimination in the criminal justice system. Racially disproportionate interaction with the system leaves people of color with significantly more court-related debt. While criminal court debt has been described and condemned in the adult system, this issue has received virtually no attention in the juvenile system, where fees undermine rehabilitative goals.
This report presents research findings about the practice of assessing and collecting fees on families with youth in the juvenile system in Alameda County, California. The County charges these fees to thousands of families who are already struggling to maintain economic and …