Consumer Issues for Justice-Involved Individuals

The criminal justice system and the collateral consequences that flow from it disproportionately harm low-income people and people of color. NCLC uses consumer law tools to stop abusive practices perpetrated against justice-involved people, including imposition of unaffordable fines and fees, debt-based barriers to criminal record clearing, harsh debt collection tactics, and predatory profiteering by public and private actors that impose unfair charges on captive consumers.

Gov. Healey and Mass. Legislature Put Families Over Prison Profiteering with Free Phone Calls for Incarcerated People

November 20, 2023

Governor Maura Healey signed a bill establishing Massachusetts as the fifth state to make prison phone calls free statewide and the first state to include provisions for free calls from county jails.

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March 19, 2022

From the NCLC Digital Library

Collection Actions

The only treatise to detail consumer defenses to debt buyer and creditor collection lawsuits on credit card, medical, criminal justice, and other consumer debts.

Read Chapter One