Waldo Lydecker's Journal.: So if you're too poor to pay child support, go to jail, where the state can make you work for peanuts and take all the money.

Monday, June 20, 2011

So if you're too poor to pay child support, go to jail, where the state can make you work for peanuts and take all the money.

The US Supreme Court issued a sharp slap to SC's Dickensian debtors' prison system of dealing with delinquent child support.

h/t The Nerve

1 comments:

Cotton Boll ConspiracyJun 20, 2011 12:14 PM
With the difference between the old-style debtors' prison and this modern-day bureaucratic hell being that instead of just a bit of interest being tacked on while the "deadbeat" molders away in jail, sizeable child-support payments continue to accrue, essentially assuring that the debt will never be erased.
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