The stacking of fees, fines and bail amounts have turned the Oklahoma County jail into an overcrowded debtors’ prison.
A newly released report by the Vera Institute of Justice doesn’t flat-out call the jail a debtors’ prison — but it sure describes it as one.
“Currently, money plays an outsized role in who occupies pretrial beds in the Oklahoma County Detention Center,” the Vera Institute said in its initial 14-page report.
Despicable
It’s really bad! Dickensian.