PAY OR STAY | Nicole Bolden's story

"Pay or Stay" is a collection research, stories, and reflections from a decade of legal battles to abolish debtors' prisons in St. Louis, from the perspective of ArchCity Defenders and its clients.
This is Nicole Bolden's story.
View the full project at: bit.ly/pay-or-...
Photo credits:
2:23 - Ratto, Andrew. IMG_1312 (St. Louis county Jail). 2008. www.flickr.com....
4:16 - Rudy Angulo, Untitled (Hazelwood Courts). 2023.
5:51 - Rudy Angulo, Untitled (Hazelwood Courts). 2023.
7:36 - Myers, Brett. Child in Front of Michael Brown Mural. 2014. www.flickr.com....
This video series was produced by Johnny Wu Gabbert, with editing and interviewing support from Z Gorley, Angelo Vidal, Natalie Dinh, and Thea Bartz Willis.

[@lafaith111]

Wow this is heartbreaking to hear, people the time is Now Stand Up For Change. Thank You for sharing your story with us🙏❤

[@superjoe3502]

How can they hold someone that long for a simple traffic violation? To keep a parent from their kids and to be able to support them for that amount of time is completely unacceptable! Give her the tickets and a court date and send her on her way wtf is this arrest and hold for months stuff?!

[@Fluer-de-Lis]

This is the way it’s done in smaller municipalities. They get away with the good ol boys way

[@BaronEvola123]

We used to have 5, not 3 financial classes in the US, despite what they tell you. It has ZERO to do with race. ZERO.
Poor.
Working class.
Lower middle class.
Upper middle class.
Wealthy.
All of these classes EXCEPT the wealthy can not move their assets out of the country, therefore are/were vulnerable to getting their assets (children's inheritance,) taken.
The new system will have no organic advancement ever again. These people and their descendents are destroying opportunity for those outside who they chose again.