ACLU Sues El Paso County Over “Pay-Or-Stay” Jail Fee

Colorado’s American Civil Liberties Union is filing suit against El Paso County claiming a fess for a pre-trial jail release program, is unconstitutional and unfair to people living in poverty. It is $55. The ACLU’s Legal Director, Mark Silverstein says it is the equivalent of a “debtor’s prison”

Read here about the court that did away with jail for poor people on probation.