Salil Dudani: How jails extort the poor
Salil Dudani: Hogyan zsarolják ki a börtönökben a szegényekből a pénzüket?
Salil Dudani has experienced the legal system from two vantage points: being detained by D.C. police on suspicion of "terrorist activity," and working as an investigator with civil rights lawyers challenging poverty-jailing. Full bio
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megmotozott és kihallgatott egy férfit,
and searched a man
and potentially dangerous.
the day of the detention, to be fair,
nem így voltam öltözve,
try to remain calm.
őrizzék meg nyugalmukat.
in Washington DC,
egy polgárjogi szervezetnél,
a police station for work.
épp egy rendőrőrszobán jártam.
to block my exit,
vegyem le a hátizsákom,
parked next to us.
a mellettem álló rendőrkocsira.
then gathered near us.
spread on the police car,
to ignore the shaking in my legs,
venni remegő lábamról,
about what I should do --
bright T-shirt, wearing glasses."
világos pólót viselő indiai férfi."
any of these details.
as they described me,
csak így írtak le engem:
male with a backpack.
into their police reports.
by my own government in these terms:
hogy kormányom e szavakkal ír le:
to sweep the area I'd been in.
kutyákkal kutatták át a kocsimat.
to see if I was on any watch lists.
hogy rajta vagyok-e valamely listán.
to cross-examine me on why,
hogy átkutassák a kocsimat.
they weren't happy with me,
what they'd want to do next.
meg nem tudom, mi vár rám.
who patted me down
to see where the security camera was
was being recorded.
a történtekből a kamerák.
I was at their mercy.
from a young age
and arrests and handcuffs,
és bilincsekkel kapcsolatos beidegződések,
and coercive a thing it is
milyen megaláztatás és erőszak éri azt,
another person's body.
the point of my story
because of my race --
a bőrszíne miatt,
detained if I were white.
hogy fehérként is lefogtak volna.
today is something else.
is végződhetett volna,
much worse things might've been
to plant an explosive,
hogy robbanószert akarok elhelyezni,
for an hour and a half,
másfél órán keresztül vizsgálták.
DC's poor communities of color,
egyik színes bőrűje lettem volna,
endangering officers' lives,
it's better to be an affluent person
gazdagnak lenni, ha már az embert
to blow up a police station
much less than this.
from my current work.
at a civil rights organization in DC,
szervezetben.
a parking ticket in your life?
have paid your tickets as well.
szintén kifizette a bírságot.
couldn't afford the amount on the ticket
ha nincs miből kifizetni,
the money either, what happens then?
to happen under the law is,
senkit sem lehet
arrested and jailed
across the country are doing
az egész országban így járnak el
at Equal Justice Under Law
mindenki egyenlő" szervezet
Ferguson, Missouri.
Ferguson városa ellen folyik.
about a different aspect
their police force and their citizens.
közötti viszonyról.
of over two arrest warrants,
parancsot ad ki,
if, every time I left my house,
csak elhagyom az otthonom,
would run my license plate,
ellenőrzi a rendszámom,
who have experienced this,
aki ezt megtapasztalta,
there's a bunk bed and a toilet,
into each cell.
and two people on the floor,
de kettőnek csak a padló,
right next to the filthy toilet,
with blood and mucus.
mindenütt vér- és váladékfoltok.
connected to the toilet.
a látványa is undorító,
without any hygiene products,
higiéniai eszközökhöz.
about medical attention,
az egyetlen segítség a szexuális."
from the guards in there is sexual."
to this place and they'd say,
és figyelmeztetik őket:
until you make a payment on your debt."
amíg ki nem fizeted az adósságod."
could call a family member
for days or weeks,
would come down to the cells
about the price of release that day.
the jail would be booked to capacity,
amíg a börtön meg nem telik,
can come up with the money,
s a gépezet forog tovább.
and the machine kept moving like that.
for panhandling in a Walgreens.
and his court fees from that case.
és a perköltségre.
he survived a house fire,
élt túl egy lakástüzet,
of the third-story window to escape.
with damage to his brain
including his leg.
payments to survive.
még ételt sem a hűtőben.
not even food in his fridge.
egy kis kartonlapon kívül,
except a small piece of cardboard
the names of his children.
He was happy to show it to me.
because he has nothing to give.
he's been arrested 13 times,
13-szor tartóztatták le,
on that panhandling case.
az egyszeri kéregetés miatt.
until sometime in June
a few moments ago.
he's seen in Ferguson's jail;
öngyilkossági kísérletekről,
a way to hang himself
was yell and yell and yell,
over five minutes to respond,
the man was unconscious.
az ember eszméletlen volt.
and the paramedics went to the cell.
annyit mondtak:
and they shouldn't have surprised me,
de nem lepődtem meg rajtuk,
cause of death in our local jails.
fő oka az öngyilkosság.
of mental health care in our jails.
a rabok lelki egészségével.
making seven dollars an hour.
anyát, aki hét dollárt keres óránként.
to feed herself and her children.
and a minor theft charge,
and fees on those cases.
about 10 times on those cases,
kb. tízszer ült,
and bipolar disorder,
to those medications in Ferguson's jail,
a nő nem jut gyógyszerhez,
to their medications.
to spend two weeks in a cage,
and hearing voices,
és hangokat hallucinál,
that would make it all stop,
have serious mental health needs
30%-ának az övéhez hasonló
any mental health care while in jail.
about this grotesque dungeon
a fergusoni ocsmány pincebörtönről,
for its debtors,
for me to actually see it
hogy saját szememmel
extortion schemes
hogy e törvénytelen zsarolások
by our public officials.
teljesen nyíltan űzik őket.
that poverty jailing in general,
hogy a szegények bebörtönzése
in our justice system.
és központi szerepet játszik.
you're detained or free,
of how dangerous you are
to post your bail amount.
le tudja-e tenni az óvadékot.
was set at a million dollars,
óvadékáról azonnal
and doesn't spend a second in a jail cell.
sem töltött börtönben.
was unable to come up with 500 dollars.
500 dollárt összeszedni.
Sandra Blands across the country --
their bail amount.
are places for criminals,
hogy a börtönökben bűnözők ülnek,
in jail right now are there pretrial.
előzetes letartóztatásban vannak.
in our jail in San Francisco
something like 80 million dollars
only because they can't post bail
akik nem tudták letenni az óvadékot,
szabálysértéssel vádolnak.
for them to sit waiting for trial
időtartama hosszabb,
they would receive if convicted,
to get out faster
the prosecutor wants and get out?
amit a nyomozó akar?
detainees, not criminals.
we'll call them criminals,
ilyen helyzetbe,
would never have been in this situation,
would have simply been bailed out.
what is he doing --
hát teszi a dolgát...
I want my money back."
depressing than the alternative,
nyomasztó, mint az ellenkezője,
about these issues
how we think about jailing,
róluk a nézetünket,
szegényekkel lesznek tele,
who don't belong there.
hogy e történetek arra ösztökélnek:
that these stories can move us
a bebörtönzésről.
like "mass incarceration,"
mint "tömeges bebörtönzés"
szabálysértés büntetése",
for days or weeks or months
napokra, hetekre, hónapokra,
to that person's mind and body?
are we really willing to do that?
esetén kell ezt tennünk?
hundred of us in this room,
pár száz ember nekifog,
jailing in this different light,
I was referring to earlier.
amelyről beszéltem.
I hope it's with the thought
to fundamentally change --
meg akarunk változtatni,
on bail and fines and fees --
s bírságról szóló szabályozást...
new policies replace those
in their own new way.
a szegényeket és nincsteleneket!
megváltoztatását igénylik.
is required of each of us.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Salil Dudani - Legal activistSalil Dudani has experienced the legal system from two vantage points: being detained by D.C. police on suspicion of "terrorist activity," and working as an investigator with civil rights lawyers challenging poverty-jailing.
Why you should listen
As a John Gardner Public Service fellow, Salil Dudani worked on civil rights cases challenging debtors' prisons and money bail. These included cases in Ferguson, Missouri, where people who could not pay fines and court fees were routinely jailed; Rutherford County, Tennessee, where a private probation company would extort impoverished probationers with the threat of jail; and San Francisco and Houston, where thousands of people are in jail cells every night because they cannot afford to post bail. Before this work, Salil was a defense investigator at the Public Defender Service in Washington, D.C. He is now a student at Yale Law School.
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