Happens all the time in child support cases. Dad won't pay because he says he doesn't have the money (or can't find a job), judge doesn't believe him and throws

Happens all the time in child support cases. Dad won't pay because he says he doesn't have the money (or can't find a job), judge doesn't believe him and throws him in jail for contempt. There's a huge lawsuit in Georgia arguing that this essentially creates a debtors prison.