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Owe Money? Be Careful, or You Might End Up in Jail.

Owing money is not a criminal offense in the USA. But big business has found a way to end-run this process.

Reports of mild-mannered Americans getting arrested for being in debt are starting to pop up in states across the country. All over the Net, we've been reading about these poor saps snatched off the street — right in front of their horrified children — by glowering cops and locked up just for missing a few credit card payments.
http://www.alternet.org/story/...might_end_up_in_jail
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lol, I thought smelled of BS with your post. Some people are being arrested for failure to appear in court when they have been sued, not for being in debt. Although it is rare that an arrest warrant would be issued for failure to appear in civil court it does happen and has always happened but it has nothing at all to do with being in debt, it's called contempt of court when someone does not show up for a court date.

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