Jailed for $280: The Return of Debtors' Prisons - Yahoo! Finance
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How did breast cancer survivor Lisa Lindsay end up behind bars? She didn't pay a medical bill -- one the Herrin, Ill., teaching assistant was told she didn't owe. "She got a $280 medical bill in error and was told she didn't have to pay it," The Associated Press reports. "But the bill was turned over to a collection agency, and eventually state troopers showed up at her home and took her to jail in handcuffs."
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. In parts of Illinois, debt collectors commonly use publicly funded courts, sheriff's deputies, and country jails to pressure people who owe even small amounts to pay up, according to the AP.
[In case you didn't receive a true historical education of the U.S.---very common today---most of those who first came to our shores were 'debtors' forced into prison by unjust laws, greedy thieves and crazy leaders. It is unbelievable that we now 'worship' in a terrible frenzy of 'prestige-idol-"belonging" ' idiocy the very monsters we first fled from. And who are the rich? Owners of our idolatrous image-makers: Soros, Hollywood, 'stars' of all kinds [the present-day "saints"], foreign bankers and oil tycoons [not from Texas but Malaysia and Saudi Arabia...et cetera....ad nauseum]
Nothing new under the sun.
BTW: How come we never hear about Benedict XV's [that's the correct number] encyclical on 'usury'?
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