Jennings to pay $4.7M in court debt incarcerations case
JENNINGS, Mo. — The city of Jennings has agreed to pay $4.7 million to an estimated 2,000 people it jailed over unpaid court debts, many of which were related to minor offenses such as traffic tickets. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/2agtLHx ) reports that the payment is part of a class-action lawsuit preliminarily approved by