FERNANDO

“I have debts from legal fees and tickets that I don’t even know how to solve. . . . I just always want to be outside.”

~ Fernando

Fernando served 8 months in prison and was assessed $2,750 in court debt. The prison then transferred him to ICE detention because he was undocumented. ICE held him for 7 years, until a human rights lawyer intervened and he was released back into the US.
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Fernando still owes that court debt, plus 12% interest. He is at constant risk of arrest due to his failure to pay his LFOs. And so he also is at constant risk of deportation. Says Fernando, “I just always want to be outside.”