Inez Bordeaux was at times left broke, homeless, and living in a halfway house over the years of unpleasant interactions with the criminal justice system in St Louis, Missouri. But the only time she ever felt hopeless was during the month she was incarcerated in the city’s infamous “workhouse” jail in 2016. “I might not … Continue reading ‘A hopeless place’: St Louis workhouse denounced as a modern-day debtors’ prison