Two of the women are now free, save for probation obligations, while two others, because of past orders in their cases, have been transferred to the Flowood Restitution Center. The restitution center is a probation program that resembles a prison work camp and was the subject of another award-winning Mississippi Today/The Marshall Project investigation, “Want out of Jail? First You Have To Take a Fast-Food Job.”

Those women will be held until they earn enough money to pay off the large fee associated with attending drug court, typically $5,000, plus court costs and fines. One of them, her aunt told Mississippi Today, was sent to work at Wendy’s, but she’s only been given an 11-hour work week, causing uncertainty about how long it will take to earn off her debts and finish the program.

Wtf America.

Time for a nation-wide revolution to tear down every fucked up system.