Rather than providing support to the poor, U.S. social policies appear designed to punish and stigmatize them. Nowhere is this more clear than in Tony Messenger’s book.

... a timely and important revelation of 'a national crisis'.

Messenger persuasively, passionately exposes these injustices and their devastating consequences, points to recent bipartisan reform efforts, and calls for nationwide dismantling of this system of profit over justice. His book merits a wide readership among policymakers, legal practitioners, students, and general audiences..

Profit and Punishment is persuasive and enraging, a book that will stir readers from both sides of the aisle to support reform..

Messenger movingly profiles three single mothers who share their jailhouse ordeals of being abused by 'a judicial process that often serves as a backdoor tax collection system'.

... a heartbreaking study of how the American justice system is weighted against the poor.