July 17, 2024 • 24 mins
More than half a million Americans are sitting in jail awaiting trial. And 60% of them are there because they can’t afford not to be.
That’s why the Workhouse jail in St. Louis stayed so full for so long. Some people jailed there were pulled over for speeding, others learned they had outstanding warrants for probation violations. All of them owed something to the courts.
In the second episode of this series, we’re taking the courts to court, to understand how the system kept The Workhouse jail full for over a century, and how Inez and the community of activists around her emptied it for good.
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