I've written before about a personal issue born of the pernicious national attitude towards those in poverty. I've spent one entire year fighting against being put in jail for essentially being broke, I posted about it first here;
and then followed up here:
This whole thing didn't even get resolved until 12/14 because only a week after the last hearing in July, my antagonist filed a petition once again seeking to put me in jail due to the processing discrepancy between my employer sending payments from my check and my having to send payments myself to make up the balance. That's right, because the order stated I had to send 'X' per week, and only 2/3 of x was sent by my employer with my mailing the balance, that meant that the payments were not processed at exactly the same time.... and I could go to jail for that. It was during such a discussion with my attorney that she told me something insane.