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What makes me skeptical of articles like this is the case studies seem to focus on people who appear to be behaving in the most ridiculous way possible. Taking
by ElComradio 11y ago
What makes me skeptical of articles like this is the case studies seem to focus on people who appear to be behaving in the most ridiculous way possible. Taking a joint to court? Running stop signs on a suspended license?
If the situations profiled are commonplace, it should not be hard to find more sympathetic victims. That said, it is true that even if this is going on infrequently it is still an injustice and should be corrected... But the headline and article would seem to want to have us believe that we have whole prisons filled with debtors.
- FireBeyond 11y ago"Taking a joint to court?" If, by 'taking a joint to court', you mean, 'had a joint in her purse, whilst being a passenger in a car that committed a minor traffic violation, and having the police officer demand she identify herself (why? She was the passenger in a traffic violation), arrest her, and take her from there to the County Courthouse', sure.
- ElComradio 11y agoI was mistaken. The way the paragraph read seemed to state that she told the judge she couldn't pay and was fined, then fined for a joint found in her purse; I did not see the joint was actually discovered during a previous instance. Still, if you are already in trouble with the law, it seems incredibly foolish to continue to willfully break it by carrying around illegal substances with you.