wow, didn't know this happens over medical debt. I always thought just tons of letters and harassing phone calls. I know we don't have debtor prisons but if you are fined (say a guilty on a traffic ticket) and you don't pay, it can be considered contempt if you don't pay it and can then be jailed. I wonder if they are doing this for student loan debts, which some can't even be discharged in bankruptcy, and few states are suspending driver licenses over student loan debts similar to how they punish people who are behind on child support.
Also crazy you can be a judge without a law degree, even if you want to a be a lawyer there's a long process without going to law school, like years of a apprenticeship. Feel like that opens up the judge to being manipulated by lawyers. Just seems like more evidence that the so called justice system isn't really just. Then the whole private prisons and prisons not really focused on rehabilitation, people get released and don't know what to do on the outside so they reoffend and get comfortable with prison. I guess in prison at least you get food and probably warmer than being cold on the streets homeless. There's some books I've been wanting to read on these topics, but haven't got around to it yet. Apparently people unknowingly commits three felonies a day, and of course being ignorant is a excuse either as you must memorize and understand thousands of pages of legal gibberish.
Feel like our nation has veered so far off course than our original principles and ideals, and then if you watch the news... Very disturbing stuff happening all over the place. Really saddening. Plus I feel like our education system is dumbing people down, but that's an entire other topic. But not sure if any other countries are that much better, seems like everywhere has it's problems.