How Systems are Making Money, Hand Over Fist, Off of Poor Kids

In his forth coming book, Injustice, Inc.: How America’s Justice System Commodifies Children and the Poor, Daniel Hatcher exposes how the systems that proport to care for poor children and families are actually making massive amounts of money off of them. Daniel joins A Public Affair to expose the hidden revenue schemes and the systemic racialized harm engrained in the the family, juvenile, and criminal justice systems.

Daniel L. Hatcher is Professor of Law in the University of Baltimore’s Civil Advocacy Clinic and author of The Poverty Industry: The Exploitation of America’s Most Vulnerable Citizens. A former Maryland Legal Aid and Children’s Defense Fund attorney. He has long been a scholar, advocate, and teacher on poverty and justice.

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