As described in this
video from the Southern Center for Human Rights, Mr. Frank Hatley was
jailed for failure to pay child support.
See below for more details.
What's unusual about this case? Mr. Hatley had no children.
I believe many of these these cases of injustice can be addressed with Spiritual Response Therapy (SRT), which I talk about in Success Strategies for Black People.
I am passionate about this. See also: We Need to Talk about an Injustice.
Many people are being incarcerated, often indefinitely, in the State of Georgia for inability to pay child support. This is in an area in which which has 24% of the population lives below the poverty line.
One-third of those in the Cook County Jail are there because of inability to pay child support. Of course, a high proportion of them are African Americans. When they do manage to find some money, their payments go to the State, not to their children.
This is just one of the many ways in which poverty leads to injustice. Many of those jailed were not provided with legal representation. And while they are in jail, they are not allowed to see their children.
