Profit and punishment: how America criminalizes the poor in the name of justice

By the numbers

Prologue: the poverty penalty

Part I: going to court. 1. The arrest ; 2. Taxation by citation ; 3. No sale of justice ; 4. Failure to play

Part II: debtors' prison. 5. Pay to stay ; 6. The key to the jailhouse door ; 7. Judges vs. judges

Part III: path to freedom. 8. The courthouse ; 9. The Capitol ; 10 The Koch Brothers meet the ACLU

11. A tale of two letters

Epilogue: poverty is relative.