To Prison For Poverty pt. 1

Hali Wood, a seventeen-year-old from Columbiana, Alabama is deeply in debt to the private probation company, JCS. Debtor's prisons are thriving in America. Private probation companies charge excessive fees to low income people who can't pay small fines like traffic tickets. If they can't pay, they go to jail. https://goo.gl/Q1uFtj

Featured on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.