Debtors Prisons

In the constitution, it states unequivocally there shall be no such thing as a debtors prison and yet over the years they have eroded this by some exceptions.

Also, in state constitutions, it states the same thing except for fraud, which is a crime and punishable by imprisonment.

In cases where a debt is owed, you can get a judgment against them, seize property and garnish wages.

In this country, there should not be such disparages that a rich man can just pay money and a poor man would be jailed.

To take someone's liberty away and imprison them, there must be a crime committed. Not just an inability to pay.

Some of these exceptions are as follows:

1. Child support:
They say its for contempt of court but the court ordered you to pay money. ( A rose is a rose.) I can see jail if there is an act of fraud, but if a man is unemployed or disabled and they put him in jail, its just going to cost the taxpayers more money. Then like above they should get a judgment against them, seize property and garnish any future wages.

2. Court costs:
Again I see no criminal actions you are required to be there or there would be criminal actions. Also I question the costs. Don't my tax dollars pay for the court house, the judge, the prosecutors, the clerk of the court, the pubic defenders? It's a heavy burden to give justice to our poor but what would we be if we didn't ? There, again, the rich man can pay and walk away while the poor man has to go to jail.They use the guise of contempt of court again.

I assert that when a court orders a man to jail for his inability to pay, they are in contempt of the constitution.