Criminal Justice

A look at President Obama's criminal justice legacy: pardoning drug offenders but increasing deportations of illegal immigrants

We meet Thomas Barrett, a former homeless man who paid thousands in probation fees over the theft of a two-dollar can of beer.

アメリカでは、200年前に借金の返済ができない債務者の収監を違憲と定めたが、現在もこの制度が違う形で存在している。ミズーリ州では、軽微な違反を理由に、貧困層など弱い立場にある人から搾取した罰金を財源に充てている。罰金の支払いに追われる住民を取材、現代の「債務者監獄」の実態を探る。

VICE News spends time with a man with a felony conviction in New York who is fighting to get his voting rights back.

In July 2015, Barack Obama became the first sitting president to visit a federal prison. He invited VICE along to film the historic event for part of a documentary, Fixing the System, which investigated America's broken criminal justice system.