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Jailing Over Child Support Creates Modern-Day Debtors Prison

Amnews.com 1/30/2017

“… At $30 a day, times 35 individuals, times 30 days in a month, times 12 months in a year, that cost to us approximates $378,000. And while these poor and destitute individuals have no means to pay (why else would they be there?), they certainly cannot pay while in jail — no jobs. …”

Read the entire article: https://www.amnews.com/2017/01/26/jailing-over-child-support-creates-modern-day-debtors-prison/