I asked this question before, and nobody knew!
If you owe a debt, like you borrowed money from a loan company and could'nt pay it back, for whatever reason, and then they sued you for it, and you had to go to court, can the judge throw you in jail? I watched this movie with "Kathy Bates
staring in it, I forgot the name, but it was about this couple with kids that owed a store lots of money they had been chargeing on a tab, and they could'nt pay it all right back, so they went to jail( this was in the 20's or 30's by the way) and there kids all tooken away, then someone did something about it, and passed a law that you could'nt go to jail for thing's like oweing money anymore, but I heard they can throw you in jail if the debt is large enough. Any clue?
2007-10-10
13:07:36
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leah j
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