{"id":3498,"date":"2023-10-03T19:45:30","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T19:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/lawmag\/?p=3498"},"modified":"2024-09-10T15:35:11","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T15:35:11","slug":"prof-daniel-hatchers-new-book-exposes-how-americas-justice-system-commodifies-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/lawmag\/prof-daniel-hatchers-new-book-exposes-how-americas-justice-system-commodifies-children\/","title":{"rendered":"New Hatcher Book Exposes How America\u2019s Justice System Commodifies Children"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\"\"Prof. Daniel Hatcher<\/strong><\/a> is an uncomfortable celebrity, but the publication of his new book in March 2023 made him a creature of the airwaves for weeks.<\/p>

The maddening pace of his promotional tour, which also took Hatcher to Harvard University for a book talk, was testament to the amount of national interest in this timely but little understood topic. Earlier this month,\u00a0an excerpt<\/a>\u00a0of Hatcher\u2019s book, Injustice, Inc.<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0 was published in\u00a0The Appeal,<\/em>\u00a0a nonprofit news organization dedicated to \u201cexposing the harms of a criminal legal system entrenched in centuries of systemic racism.\u201d He has also been interviewed on numerous justice-themed podcasts and television programs like \u201cPittsburgh Now.\u201d<\/p>

Hatcher teaches in the\u00a0Saul Ewing Civil Advocacy Clinic<\/a>\u00a0at UBalt Law. Like his 2016 book,\u00a0The Poverty Industry: The Exploitation of America\u2019s Most Vulnerable Citizens<\/em><\/a>, his new book\u00a0exposes the ways in which justice systems exploit America\u2019s history of racial and economic inequality to generate revenue on a massive scale. Using detailed legal analysis, Hatcher uncovers how courts, prosecutors, police, probation departments and detention facilities are abandoning ethics to churn vulnerable children and adults into unconstitutional factory-like operations.<\/p>

Hatcher reveals stark details of revenue schemes and reflects on the systemic racialized harm of the injustice enterprise. He details how these corporatized institutions enter contracts to make money removing children from their homes, extort fines and fees, collaborate with debt collectors, seize property, incentivize arrests and evictions, enforce unpaid child labor, maximize occupancy in detention and \u201ctreatment\u201d centers, and more.\u00a0Injustice, Inc.<\/em>\u00a0underscores the need to unravel these predatory operations, which have escaped public scrutiny for too long.<\/p>

In a blog post he wrote for his publisher, University of California Press,\u00a0available on its website<\/a>, Hatcher explains his motivation to pull back the curtain and expose the heartless exploitation committed by institutions that were created to protect the most vulnerable.<\/p>

\u201cInspired by the perseverance and determination of my clients,\u201d the former Legal Aid lawyer wrote, \u201cmy own research strives to uncover structural failings within our justice systems that undermine equal and impartial justice. And what I found over and over again was how the systems commodify vulnerable populations to prioritize revenue and profit over justice.<\/p>

\u201cMy research revealed a barrage of revenue schemes that were often buried within contract and budget documents. Our foundational courts, prosecutors, probation departments, police and sheriff\u2019s offices, and detention and treatment facilities are all contractually collaborating with each other and with public welfare agencies\u2014using vulnerable populations to generate revenue rather than ensuring their justice and welfare,\u201d Hatcher continued.<\/p>

\u201cThe moneyed operations are varied in structure but similar in unethical and unconstitutional mechanics, churning in symbiotic relationships: \u2018In a vicious, racialized, industrialized, and monetized cycle, harm fuels and feeds from harm.’\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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