On Monday, California will stand up to the Trump administration and become the first state to stop jailing poor children who can’t afford to pay court fines and fees. The state will scrap juvenile administrative fees altogether in an effort to protect low-income families and children from what can only be described as a neo-debtors' prison.
When youth are arrested and fail to pay administrative fees, they can be incarcerated. But these fees impose enormous financial burdens on some of America’s most vulnerable families, and generate little to no revenue for the government.
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