The Poverty Industry
- 287 páginas
- 11 horas de lectura
Daniel L. Hatcher es un profesor de derecho cuyo trabajo profundiza en cuestiones de beneficios públicos, vivienda, derecho del consumidor y derecho de familia. Su experiencia en defensa legal, particularmente con organizaciones centradas en ayudar a niños y familias de bajos ingresos, informa profundamente su perspectiva. La escritura y la enseñanza de Hatcher reflejan un compromiso con la justicia social y las complejidades del derecho de la pobreza, con el objetivo de iluminar los desafíos sistémicos que enfrentan las poblaciones vulnerables. Su amplia experiencia incluye el desarrollo de políticas y la defensa legislativa, lo que subraya su dedicación a abogar por aquellos con recursos limitados.


"In Injustice, Inc., Daniel L. Hatcher exposes how justice systems are harnessing America's history of racial and economic inequality into revenue-generating operations. Courts, prosecutors, probation, policing departments, and detention facilities are trading away ethics and justice to churn vulnerable children and adults into an unconstitutional factory enterprise. These justice institutions are entering contracts to make money removing children from their homes, monetizing harm from juvenile delinquency, child welfare and child support proceedings, extorting fines and fees, collaborating with private debt collectors, enforcing unpaid child labor, seizing property, incentivizing arrests and evictions, maximizing occupancy in detention and 'treatment' centers, and more. Hatcher details the disproportionately racialized harm and unconstitutionality of the injustice enterprise, and calls for opened eyes to our justice system failings--to walk a better path toward instilling truth into the words 'Equal Justice Under Law'"--