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Mass. Trial Court Fines and Fees Working Group, Report to Trial Court Chief Justice Paula M. Carey (Nov. 17, 2016).

Mass. Senate Committee on Post Audit and Oversight, Fine Time Massachusetts: Judges, Poor People, and Debtors’ Prison in the 21st Century (Nov. 7, 2016).

U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Targeted Fines and Fees Against Communities of Color: Civil Rights & Constitutional Implications (Sept. 2017).

Job Opportunities Task Force, The Criminalization of Poverty: How to Break the Cycle Through Policy Reform in Maryland (Jan. 2018).

Alexandra Bastien, Ending the Debt Trap: Strategies to Stop the Abuse of Court-Imposed Fees and Fines, PolicyLink (Mar. 2017).

Alabama Appleseed, Under Pressure (2008).

ACLU, A Pound of Flesh: The Criminalization of Private Debt (2018).

Elizabeth Patterson, Turner in the Trenches: A Study of How Turner v. Rogers Affected Child Support Contempt Proceedings, 25 Geo. J. on Poverty L. Pol’y 75 (2017).

Abby Shafroth, Criminal Justice Debt in the South: A Primer for the Southern Partnership to Reduce Debt, National Consumer Law Center (Dec. 2018).

Her Justice, Towards Justice for Parents in Child Support Cases (Mar. 2021).

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The NCCRC works to advance the right to counsel for low-income people in civil cases involving basic human needs, such as housing, health, domestic violence, civil incarceration, and child custody.

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