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Today in History: July 30, 1972 - New court procedures provide relief to poor
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This Today in History revisits an article about Grand Forks Municipal Court introducing a program allowing people to pay traffic fines in installments instead of going to jail.
New court procedures provide relief to poorYou're broke and next week's paycheck is already spent, and the traffic court judge has just fined you $75.
Included among the people who can't always pay a fine outright, Hamilton said, are a lot of airmen.
And then there are those, he said, who cannot pay the fine, but who can't bring themselves to admit it.
Over the same period of time this year, the court has heard 2,230 cases — almost a 40 per cent increase.