Hey Bruce,
This is just friggin' outrageous. Of course, there is no such thing as "debtors' prisons" anymore, but I understand the concept quite well. This is the same mechanism that is utilized by the Courts for arresting dead-beat dads, and those individuals who fail to pay court ordered fines or restitution.
There is a way to beat these scumbags at their own game, and if ANYONE is threatened by a collection agency, and/or someone calls threatening them with some type of imprisonment or legal consequences for failing to pay a debt, PLEASE CALL ME! I will do my best to assist you in busting their ass!
Thanks for sharing this Bruce!
KeithInTampa
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 5:16 AM, Bruce Majors <majors.bruce@gmail.com> wrote:
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Collection Agencies Now Want Deadbeats Arrested
As if life wasn't already tense enough for Americans who can't pay their debts, collection agencies are now taking advantage of archaic state laws to have some debtors arrested and sent to jail.
More than one-third of US states allow debtors to be arrested and jailed, says Jessica Silver-Greenberg in the Wall Street Journal.
Judges typically grant arrest warrants when the debtors have failed to show up for court dates or failed to make court-ordered payments.
Of course, the reason debtors have failed to make court-ordered payments is often the same reason they didn't pay their debts in the first place: They don't have any money.
In September, a 53 year-old woman named Vivian Joy was stopped for a broken tail-light in Champaign, Illinois. And then, because the cops discovered that she still hadn't paid $2,200 to a collection agency, she was cuffed and carted off to jail.
read here...
http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/return-debtors-prisons-collection-agencies-now-want-deadbeats-172417607.html?l=1
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