Poverty Penalties and Poverty Traps

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 Oregon Or. Rev. Stat. § 137.450 Enforcement of money judgment in criminal action

A judgment against the defendant or complainant in a criminal action, so far as it requires the payment of a fine, fee, assessment, costs and disbursements of the action or

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restitution, may be enforced as a judgment in a civil action.

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