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In ‘Profit and Punishment,’ Tony Messenger exposes how the justice system traps poor people

St. Louis on the Air

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'Kendy Killman'

Kendy got pulled over allegedly because she had a broken windshield, which she did not. She was just driving home from arkansas to see her sick grandmother. They found a pot pipe in buried in the trunk below the carpet. And like so many people across this country, ends up, after a guilty plea, with a bill of a thousand dollars.

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