League of Women Voters Study: Criminal Justice Fines And Fees Are Crippling Working Poor
Ashley Binkowski / WGLT Arthur Haynes says he is a rehabilitated man--a civic leader and entrepreneur, but someone who can’t run for elected office to represent his community because he still can’t get out from under court fines and fees that accumulated over 15 years. Haynes is a Bloomington Housing Authority board member and started the West Market Street Council and serves as its president. His philosophy is "do something that means something.” Yet, when Black citizens of Bloomington recruited him to run for mayor, he couldn’t because he still owes $8,000 in fines and fees fro...
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