Policy Extending Probation disputed

August 1998: Valentin Rodriguez successfully challenged local courtroom policies of extending probation for persons who are not able to pay court costs and fines, and then jailing them for later failing to pay those fines – arguing that we do not have debtors prisons. (See Palm Beach Post article titled:Policy Extending Probation Disputed: Plea and Pass Deals Punish Poor, Some Say, published on August 24, 1998).