By Yahoo Finance 4/23/2012
“…Although the U.S. abolished debtors’ prisons in the 1830s, more than a third of U.S. states allow the police to haul people in who don’t pay all manner of debts, from bills for health care services to credit card and auto loans. …”
Read the entire article: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/jailed-for–280–the-return-of-debtors–prisons.html
