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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