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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We are immensely grateful for the support that allows us to continue to study poverty in North Carolina. The Law Firm of James Scott Farrin, particularly, has provided generous support for the series of reports we now undertake on criminalizing poverty in the Tar Heel State. This is the first of six reports we will publish on the crucial topic over the next three years. The Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, the A.J. Fletcher Foundation, and the Triangle Community Foundation have also been generous in providing funding to explore, and write about, such matters—as have a number of very kind individual and foundation donors. We have, as ever, benefitted from terrific work of UNC law students. Rachel VanCamp, Lashieka Hardin, Matt Norchi, Kahlil Perine, Phillip Perko, Josh Bransford and Haillee Mason have done great work on which we rely here. We are also immensely grateful to the clients, judges and public defenders who spoke to us about the issues explored in these pages. Finally, James Williams, now retired Orange County Public Defender, has been instrumental in turning our attention to the wrenching challenges faced by low income people in dealing with the criminal justice system in North Carolina, and Cristina Becker, of the ACLU of North Carolina, has been, and remains, a vitally helpful partner in our ongoing research efforts.