Summary: Ever notice how there weren't any characters on HBO's drama <em>The Wire</em> who were serving time for past due debts? That's because debtors prisons were outlawed in the United States nearly 200 years ago. And in 1983, the U.S. Supreme Court said that courts can't send people to jail just because they are too poor to pay their court fines. So you can't go to jail just because you don't pay your debts ... right?
