Perry County Circuit Judge Marvin Wiggins gave two options to those unable to afford their court fees: give blood or go to jail.
Yesterday, the Southern Poverty Law Center filed an ethics complaint with the Judicial Inquiry Commission against the circuit judge for what SPLC Deputy Legal Director Sam Brooke called a “violation of bodily integrity.”
“It’s shocking to say that to avoid jail, you have to give blood,” Brooke said Tuesday. “It’s fundamentally at odds with how the system is supposed to work.”
Read more:
http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2015/10/20/blood-jail-judge-offers-discount-blood/74265236/
http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2016/01/21/blood-seeking-judge-censured/79128074/
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/20/us/for-offenders-who-cant-pay-its-a-pint-of-blood-or-jail-time.html?_r=0
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-to-defendants-to-avoid-jail-pay-court-fees-or-give-blood/
http://6abc.com/news/alabama-judge-give-blood-or-go-to-jail/1049482/
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