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No Crime, but an Arrest and Two Strip-Searches

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

No Crime, but an Arrest and Two Strip-Searches By ADAM LIPTAK WASHINGTON- NY Times March 7, 2011 Albert W. Florence believes that black men who drive nice cars in New Jersey run a risk of being questioned by the police. For that reason, he kept handy a 2003 document showing he had paid a court-imposed fine stemming from a traffic offense, just in case. It did not seem to help. In March 2005, Mr. Florence was in the passenger seat of his BMW when a state trooper pulled it over for speeding. His wife, April, was driving. His 4-year-old son, Shamar, was in the back. The trooper ran a records search, and he found an outstanding warrant based on the supposedly unpaid fine. Mr. Florence showed the trooper the document, but he was arrested anyway...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 09, 2011 (boomark / email).