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After more than a year in a juvenile detention facility in Orange County, California, Maria Rivera’s son was released back in 2010. As he exited incarceration, the Orange County Probation Department handed Rivera a bill for $16,372, the fees officials charged for keeping him in custody. Rivera sold her home and put $9,508 of those profits toward paying off the $23.90 a day, plus $2,199 for legal expenses, that the county calculated as her son’s debt, according to court papers. When the county sued to collect the balance, her judgment grew to $9,905. In 2011, when Rivera filed for bankruptcy