Проф. Преображенский писал(а):Думается, что тут не за сам долг преследуют, а за злостное уклонение и нарушение решений суда. Что есть правильно.
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As a sheriff's deputy dumped the contents of Joy Uhlmeyer's purse into a sealed bag, she begged to know why she had just been arrested while driving home to Richfield after an Easter visit with her elderly mother.
ей при аресте никто даже прав ее не зачитал и не сказал за что арестовывают
After three hours in a holding cell, his wife got him released by borrowing $300 on a credit card. He is considering a challenge to the ruling on constitutional grounds. "I couldn't pay, and I was stuck in jail until I did," he said. "How is that any different from debtors prison?"
In Button's case, the judge threatened him with jail if he didn't pay $25 a month toward a $1,865 judgment. After Button twice said, "I can't," Judge Lucy Goffinet responded, "I'm not going to accept, 'I cannot,' and if the next words out of your mouth are 'I cannot,' Mr. Button, then you'll set ... at the Sheriff's Department until you find a way that, yes, you can," according to the transcript.
Alan White, a law professor at Valparaiso University in Indiana, says even the threat of jail for debts is unconstitutional. He also questioned the practice -- common in Minnesota and elsewhere-- of bail being set at the amount of the debt.
"If, in effect, people are being incarcerated until they pay bail, and bail is being used to pay their debts, then they're being incarcerated to pay their debts," he said.
