Skip to content

Spring Fund Drive

Listener contributions are our most reliable source of funding to keep your favorite KBCS programs going strong. Please, do your part by making your Spring Fund Drive contribution today, and thank you in advance.

$132,000 Goal

24.75%

Drive ends: March 23, 2025

91.3 KBCS (KBCS Logo)
Now Playing:
Menu
Please enable your javascript to have a better view of the website. Learn about activating javascript here.
single.php

Incarcerated Women: Fines and Fees

August 15, 2018 - 12:24 pm

Do financial obligations levied on current and former incarcerated people penalize the poor? A majority of people locked up are either poor or unemployed, prior to incarceration, according to the Prison Policy Initiative’s compilation of data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Fines, fees, and restitution payments pile up for many people leaving prison, making it nearly impossible to find a way out of poverty. KBCS’s Yuko Kodama speaks with Alexes Harris, a University of Washington Sociology Professor who researched monetary sanctions on incarcerated people for her 2016 book, “A Pound of Flesh: Monetary Sanctions as a Punishment for the Poor“. Harris shares her thoughts on inequality and the intersection of poverty and incarceration.

“Atrapado” by GuilleDes is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Producers Yuko Kodama and Ruth Bly