Thousands of Dollars Extorted from Pretrial Detainees After Bail Was Paid
NEW ORLEANS –(ENEWSPF)–August 8, 2017. People awaiting trial before a Baton Rouge criminal court were coerced into paying hundreds of dollars to a company before they were released from jail — even after they had paid their bail, according to a lawsuit filed last night by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and the ACLU of…
