{"id":147734,"date":"2019-06-20T13:30:28","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T17:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/?page_id=147734"},"modified":"2022-05-30T23:02:18","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T03:02:18","slug":"modern-day-debtors-prisons-race-and-revenue-generation-in-courts-across-america","status":"publish","type":"conversation","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/conversations\/politics-and-policy\/modern-day-debtors-prisons-race-and-revenue-generation-in-courts-across-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern-Day Debtors&#8217; Prisons: Race and Revenue Generation in Courts Across America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wednesday, September 18, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>4:30\u20136:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"font-size: 80%; line-height: 100%; text-transform: uppercase;\">doors open, 4 p.m.<\/h6>\n<p>Hiebert Lounge<br \/>\n72 East Concord Street<br \/>\nBoston<\/p>\n<p>#CJReform<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"highlight1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>EVENT HIGHLIGHTS<\/h4>\n<h6 style=\"text-transform: uppercase;\">More than Concepts, a Lived Reality<\/h6>\n<div class=\"responsive-video\"><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"550\" height=\"310\" src=\"\/\/www.bu.edu\/buniverse\/interface\/embed\/embed.html?v=ptM8M0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a name=\"highlight2\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-transform: uppercase;\">Prison Without Bars<\/h6>\n<div class=\"responsive-video\"><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"550\" height=\"310\" src=\"\/\/www.bu.edu\/buniverse\/interface\/embed\/embed.html?v=2KP6LO0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a name=\"highlight3\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-transform: uppercase;\">Fines to Fit the Crime\u2013and the Person<\/h6>\n<div class=\"responsive-video\"><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"550\" height=\"310\" src=\"\/\/www.bu.edu\/buniverse\/interface\/embed\/embed.html?v=99PDr0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Nearly two centuries ago, the United States formally abolished the incarceration of people who failed to pay off debts. Yet, recent years have witnessed the rise of modern-day debtors\u2019 prisons\u2014the jailing of poor people for failure to pay legal debts they can never hope to afford\u2014along with other draconian sanctions imposed on poor and low-income people who cannot pay fines and fees to courts. The ACLU Racial Justice Program and allies across the country are bringing lawsuits and advocacy to expose and challenge these practices. This talk will explore how modern-day debtors\u2019 prisons push people\u2014predominantly people of color\u2014into cycles of poverty, debt, and the criminal legal system and will examine promising solutions.<\/p>\n<h4>Speaker<\/h4>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2019\/06\/Nusrat-Choudhury-100x125.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignleft size-full\" width=\"100\" height=\"125\" \/>Nusrat Choudhury, Deputy Director, ACLU Racial Justice Program<\/p>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h6 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Read More<\/h6><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\">Nusrat Choudhury is the deputy director of the ACLU Racial Justice Program, which is dedicated to advancing opportunity and equality for communities of color in the United States by fighting white supremacy and drivers of inequality in education, housing, the economy, and the criminal legal system. She leads litigation and advocacy challenging police racial profiling and \u201cdebtors\u2019 prisons\u201d \u2013 the illegal arrest and jailing of people unable to pay money to courts.<\/p>\n<p>Nusrat\u2019s litigation and advocacy against debtors\u2019 prisons has exposed and reformed practices in Georgia, Mississippi, Washington, and South Carolina, and has led to the development of national guidance promoting the fair and equal treatment of rich and poor in courts. As lead counsel in <em>Kennedy v. The City of Biloxi, Mississippi<\/em>, she helped secure model reforms to advance equal treatment of rich and poor and to enforce the right to counsel in the criminal justice system. Nusrat has advocated against racial profiling and unlawful stop-and-frisk practices in numerous cities, including through <em>Collins v. The City of Milwaukee<\/em>, a federal lawsuit that resulted in a landmark 2018 court-ordered settlement agreement requiring sweeping reforms<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Nusrat served as a staff attorney in the ACLU\u2019s National Security Project, where she conducted litigation and advocacy against post-9\/11 discrimination against racial and ethnic minorities.<\/p>\n<p>Nusrat clerked for Judge Barrington D. Parker in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and for Judge Denise Cote in the Southern District of New York. She completed her J.D. at Yale Law School, her M.P.A. at Princeton University\u2019s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and her B.A. at Columbia University. Nusrat is a recipient of the South Asian Bar Association of New York Access to Justice Award, the Edward Bullard Distinguished Alumnus Award of Princeton&#8217;s Woodrow Wilson School, and the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, September 18, 2019 4:30\u20136:00 p.m. doors open, 4 p.m. Hiebert Lounge 72 East Concord Street Boston #CJReform EVENT HIGHLIGHTS More than Concepts, a Lived Reality Prison Without Bars Fines to Fit the Crime\u2013and the Person Nearly two centuries ago, the United States formally abolished the incarceration of people who failed to pay off debts. 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