What is the world is going on in the U.S.? Have u guys heard about this?

On the Rise of Debtor’s Prison: ‘The Scariest Thing That Ever Happened to Me’

Thought debtors’ prisons were a thing of the past? A contrivance used to punish the penniless in the age of Dickens?

Think again.

The WSJ’s Jessica Silver-Greenberg has a story Thursday on the return of the debtor’s prison — in 21st Century America.

According to the story, more than a third of all U.S. states allow borrowers who can’t or won’t pay to be jailed. Judges have signed off on more than 5,000 such warrants since the start of 2010 in nine counties.

http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2011/03/17/on-the-rise-of-debtors-prison-the-scariest-thing-that-ever-happened-to-me/