What's Driving Got to Do With It? How the DMV is Conscripted to Do the Dirty Work of the Criminal Justice System

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/07/15/whats-driving-got-to-do-with-it-how-the-dmv-is-conscripted-to-do-the-dirty-work-of-the-criminal-justice-system/
Date Written:  2016-07-15
Publisher:  Counter Punch
Year Published:  2016
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX19753

In the aftermath of the Ferguson, Missouri protests of the death of Michael Brown in 2014, articles were written about the exorbitant fines assessed against residents of Ferguson, mostly minorities, and how these fines both led to and exacerbated a cycle of incarceration and poverty.