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Springfield, MO
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Springfield, MO
The city of Maplewood in St. Louis County agreed to pay a nearly $3.3 million settlement in a class-action settlement.
The lawsuit alleged the municipality ran a debtors' prison and unconstitutionally jailed at least 7,000 people.
"For years, the Maplewood police wrote thousands of tickets to raise millions of dollars in revenue... This resulted in poor people, and mostly Black people, being jailed for days at a time until Maplewood had extorted as much money as possible from them," said Nathanial Carroll, senior staff attorney for nonprofit law firm ArchCity, which represented the plaintiffs in the suit.
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