Messenger Shes 64 with a clean record But she spent 3 days in jail for being poor

PILOT KNOB, Mo. — Lori Ann Stuehmeyer spent three days in the Iron County Jail because she is poor. “It was my first time in jail,” she told me. Stuehmeyer is 64. She has no record. She’s disabled and lives on a monthly $892 disability check from the federal government. Her run-in with the law started on a sunny May afternoon two years ago. She took her dog, a 7-year-old pitbull mix named Saint, for a walk in a park by the Arcadia Valley Pool in Ironton, about two hours southwest of St. Louis. Stouts Creek runs through the park,…