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We don’t really do debtor’s prison anymore…

• edgyquant 3y ago
  We most certainly have penalties that include jail time for not paying fines. You’re right that isn’t a debtors prison so I’m not sure why you’ve brought them into the conversation.
• dymk 3y ago
  That's fine, but we do prisons for criminals, and the guy is a fraudster
• qingcharles 3y ago
  Tell that to the thousands of people locked up for inability to pay their child support. They don't imprison you for the debt, they imprison you because the court gave you a direct order and you could not fulfill that order, thus you committed contempt.
  • NotYourLawyer 3y ago
    My understanding is that you don’t go to prison for inability to pay, but for having the money and not forking it over.
    • qingcharles 3y ago
      Sadly it's not that simple, although that perhaps is the way it should be because that would be a form of tax evasion. All the people I know locked up for child support issues just couldn't work enough to afford to live and pay what the government was asking, and the government would fight to keep the level the same, even though it wasn't sane. Then the government would first punish these people by canceling their driver's licenses as an incentive to make them pay, which would often result in them losing their jobs and falling further behind. In the end, jail.