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Lawsuit: St. Louis suburb’s courts violate rights of poor

A federal lawsuit seeking class-action status accuses a St. Louis suburb of often violating the rights of the poor by jailing them because they can't pay small amounts of bond money. The lawsuit filed Wednesday in St. Louis against 13,000-resident St. Ann alleges that people unable to come up with bail amounts ranging from $150 to ...

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