An Overdue Trash Bill Left This Alabama Woman in Handcuffs. She’s Not Alone.
DOUBLE SPRINGS, Ala.—As 59-year-old Pam Benton sat handcuffed to a cold bench inside the Winston County Courthouse, shame flooded over her. All she could think about, she later explained, was what her grandchildren may soon believe about their “nana.” “Only bad people go to jail,” Benton told Inside Climate News. “That’s what a lot of […]
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