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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 from unpaid penalties from a felony DUI and related traffic and criminal offenses, some dating back to when he was in college. ....

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