Courts Reviving Debtors' Prison For Overdue Fines And Fees!!! {With VIDEO On Court Costs}

I can barely afford rent.

It's to do with profit. Many states have privatized jails and a part of the deal is that they have to be (I think) 80% occupied, otherwise the state pays a penalty. The USA has the finest politicians that money can buy.

too many pussies afraid of dying and THEY KNOW IT. face it assholes those in charge are calling you bitches and then treating you accordingly.

too many pussies afraid of dying and THEY KNOW IT. face it assholes those in charge are calling you bitches and then treating you accordingly.

the cost of obamacare, the eventual price increase of utilities from smart meters, being charged by the mile we drive, etc... we will all be there soon. not enough prison space, better build some FEMA detention centers.

This is literally unconstitutional, not that a piece of paper ever stopped tyrants from doing what they wish.

Thank you for this info.

This is what is worrying me so much. Everything is coming down on us to create the "perfect storm."

Praise God!

We can barely afford to live...sigh.

I love your avatar...it makes me smile.

It's what they can "fine" you with too that is just amazing. The process to fight is absurd.

I never understood at all how locking someone up for a debt could be productive. Well unless you wanted to thin the herd so to speak.

I know.

Interesting...Yet another way to scare/Control/mentally damage the poor...What is next...Cutting off a pound of flesh to appease the rich?

Exactly, Settle...it really worries me.

In one of these GLP threads, I read something in someone's signature that stated something like, "Gold is the currency of kings, silver is the currency of gentlemen, barter is the currency of peasants and dept is the currency of slaves". Sounds about right, guess what US?

Yep, that sounds about right...I hate life.

Several years ago, I got a ticket for speeding. I attempted to fight it, and was pushed into a payment plan I could not afford. I had never had a ticket in my life. I explained I could not afford it, but they did not seem to care. They told me they would send me a letter for a court date.

I waited, and waited and it never came. I figured they took sympathy on me and waived my fine.

Years later, I got another ticket for going three miles over the limit. The ticket was two hundred dollars, once that ticket went through I got a letter notifying me of my unpaid fine which had climbed from 200.00 to 600.00. I was told I had a warrant, and if I did not pay or make an arrangement by a certain day I would be placed in jail.

I've never committed a crime, and until I moved here ( Arlington, Tx) gotten a ticket. I went to the court house the next day and stood in line for two hours to "make arrangements". As I did, I was educated. This is common place, they add crazy fines to old tickets over years, and then threaten jail if unpaid.

I was able to arrange a payment plan. They did not ask me what I could afford, instead told me I needed to pay 133.33 for six months. Because I neeeded a payment plan, a "service fee'" of 200.00 had been added. Luckily, my ex gave me his credit card, or I would have been screwed. I had to pay that before I left or my warrant would be enforceable. If I missed one payment they would "pick me up". For six months, I lived in fear, and struggled to make the payment. I went without lunch every day, often had no money for gas to get to work, but they got paid.

Now I live in fear of getting a ticket here. It's incredible how they can get away with turning two tickets that were 200.00 each into 1000. worth of debt. I was treated like I was a loser. They did not care that I was a single parent who was struggling to make ends meet. At all.

This is the story I am so afraid of. It could happen to any of us.

Once you get in the system, the system can take you and eat you alive.

the war on deadbeats is going to replace the war on drugs