City to pay $3.25M in debtors’ prison lawsuit

Maplewood police in Missouri issued 84,906 tickets between 2011 and 2021, and its municipal court generated $6.4 million in revenue. Their operation “resulted in poor people, and mostly Black people, being jailed for days at a time,” an attorney claimed.

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