Work, Pay, or Go to Jail: Court-Ordered Community Service in Los Angeles
Lucero Herrera, Tia Koonse, Melanie Sonsteng-Person and Noah Zatz
October 16, 2019
Publications,Summary
Work, Pay, or Go to Jail: Court-Ordered Community Service in Los Angeles is the first study to analyze a large-scale system of court-ordered community service in the contemporary United States. It finds that court-ordered community service functions as a system of unregulated and coercive labor, which worsens the effects of criminal justice debt and displaces paid jobs.
