Law Commons^™

University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law

Journal

2020

Criminal justice debt; Arkansas traffic violations result in jail time; minor offenses generating crippling debt or resulting in jail time; problem of fines and fees for relatively minor infractions that lead to incarceration for those who cannot afford to pay; scholarship about debtors’ prisons and fines-related litigation in Arkansas; legal framework in Arkansas for imposing and enforcing fines and fees; potential solutions to prevent the poor from suffering life-altering negative consequences for minor infractions