“The judge had her come back month after month in an effort to collect that $15,000.” “Her name was Brooke, and she was arrested for stealing an eight-dollar tube of mascara from a Walmart and ended up doing some jail time and getting a $15,000 bill for that jail time,” said Messenger. Messenger says one of the reasons he is excited to be in Springfield to promote his book is because the main character in his book is from Southwest Missouri.
That was the inspiration of the JailHouse Lawyer.”Īllen says a novel can be entertaining but also informative and says the new book, The JailHouse Lawyer, does both. “I talked to James Patterson about it and then James got all fired up about it.
“In 2019, I’m a big fan of Tony Messenger, and I was following Tony’s coverage of the debtors’ prisons in Missouri, and I got all fired up about it,” said Allen. Messenger, a former editorial writer for the Springfield News-Leader, is an award-winning columnist for the St.
“One of the reasons I’m so excited to be able to do this together with Nancy is because her most recent book with James Patterson talks about the same topic which is the criminalization of poverty,” said Messenger. Profit and Punishment‘s major theme is the criminalization of poverty, and the book looks at debtors’ prisons. Louis tonight after being rescued from a puppy mill in Douglas County, Missouri