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Missouri, for one, but I think it is common:

"...more than half the courts in St. Louis County engage in the "illegal and harmful practices" of charging high court fines and fees on nonviolent offenses like traffic violations — and then arresting people when they don't pay."

http://www.npr.org/2014/08/25/343143937/in-ferguson-court-fi...



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