When Vera Cheeks was too broke to pay a $135 traffic ticket for her failure to come to a complete halt at a Bainbridge stop sign, she was detained at the Grady County courthouse until her fiancé pawned her engagement ring and his weed trimmer for the payment required to free her.
Bainbridge resident Fred Barber was also detained in a courthouse holding cell when he was unable to scrape together the cash to pay his fine for driving with a suspended registration. To secure his release, Barber’s cousin had to bring $70 to the courthouse to pay Red Hills Community Probation, the private company the city had hired to manage its misdemeanor probationers, according to a federal suit in Albany.
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