according to the united nations international covenant on civil and political rights no one shall be imprisoned merely on the ground of inability to. fulfill a contractual obligation and yet according to a new report from the american civil liberties union it suggests that thousands and thousands of people are being incarcerated or threatened with incarceration for just that unpaid bills so just like the fact that debtors prisons were abolished in eight hundred thirty three by congress private debt collectors are getting judges to issue an arrest warrants for unpaid civil debt judgments in one case and the elderly maryland couple were arrested and jailed for not showing up to a hearing regarding twenty three hundred dollars in unpaid homeowners' association fees the seventy eight year old wife was thrown into a jail cell and her eighty three year old husband to he eventually had to be taken to the hospital after the stress of jail made him start vomiting blood the kicker the reason they didn't show up to court in the first place or address the debt was because the process server had

can get away with violating the united nations international covenant on civil and political rights.

according to the united nations international covenant on civil and political rights no one shall be imprisoned merely on the ground of inability to fulfill a contractual obligation and yet according to a new report from the american civil liberties union it suggests that thousands and thousands of people are being incarcerated or threatened with incarceration for just that unpaid bills so despite the fact that debtors prisons were abolished in eight hundred thirty three by congress private debt collectors are getting judges to issue an arrest warrants for unpaid civil debt judgments in one case and the elderly maryland couple were arrested and jailed for not showing up to a hearing regarding twenty three hundred dollars in unpaid homeowners' association figures the seventy eight. world wife was thrown into a jail cell and her eighty three year old husband to he eventually had to be taken out of the hospital after the stress of jail made him start vomiting blood the kicker the reason they didn't show up to court in the first place or address the debt was because the process server ha

can get away with violating the united nations international covenant on civil and political rights it's because while the u.s. signed it congress never ratified it once again even americans without the personal liberty the constitution promises them who always always you see that over and over and over again i think hearing this thing over and over again where well we did but we didn't really ratify or. that's why we can use chemical weapons we don't really use we can use you know see all sorts of figures that are banned in other countries during war but we have to use them because. that to me is this is where their lives is disgusting i'm sorry but but debtors prison is you know it is illegal when the coasters includes as low and we shouldn't be allowing this to happen people have to pay us let them pay their debts but how are they going to pay back their debt of jail i've never understood that logic like once you go to jail you can't we're good job you're not good now devoted right you get paid well you know bottom hour making license plates if you're lucky you. what about school pay