But why then did she not die in a hospital, rather than her jail cell?

You'd be surprised how much fees can go up if you don't pay them initially or how often poor people get slammed with "court costs" associated with these types of fines.

I don't think you know what sensationalize means.

War on the poor: http://www.npr.org/2014/05/19/312…

I'm sorry. I don't see any journalism here, just infotainment clickbait.

Let's all laugh at poverty y'all! I bet her parents who named her were on crystal metheney too!

Okay now I want a followup interview with the person who had to write this book with her!

I mean sure, you can report on just what the sheriff said and call it journalism, but is it really? It's common practice, as you know, for the police/prosecutors to release statements with their theory/side of the case. That doesn't mean that's what actually happened and that doesn't mean you don't have to use…

Black men were hanged for breaking the color line (Jim Crow customs and laws) well into the 1940s and 50s.

Yeah it's actually racist tropes that started around the founding of the country and were accepted by many places in this country well into the 60s (and are, as evinced by this story, still prevalent). He's got many bases covered - white supremacy, Jim Crow, lynching, all on the backdrop of a cotton plantation. I'm…

And the whitewashing of history continues onward.

I wonder how U.S. economic sanctions impacts women's rights in Iran?

I think the author doesn't get the magnitude of the problem and why this prosecutor thinks the way he does. The author is pointing out that crime victims with drug problems are going to be treated worse at his office. That's true, but the larger problem here is they are actually being prosecuted as criminals solely…

I feel sorry for the next drug addicted mother who has some sort awful crime committed against her and has to go to Ashton and Lewis for help in getting justice.

You can't really blame Terrio on white people bro.

Lol I have encountered many a douchebag that does not own a $500,000 car. A lot of them do own four-seater pickup trucks though.

Agreed. But I'm also "against" (aesthetically not politically) simply bad plastic surgery. If you know the person had surgery without them telling you, then something went wrong.

Right? I think the writer is unaware of the impending class war in this country. ;P

Nope. That income goes to her and she gets to use it to take care of the children. But that's her income, not her children's. She has to declare it for tax purposes because it's hers.

No, I mean her getting 250k a year from her ex-husband, allowing her to be independently wealthy and among the top 1% of earners in this country. I understand it's not restitution in the legal sense of the word but I still think it's restitution in a more dramatic interpretation of the word. And I guess we have no…