Georgia Parents Languish in Debtors’ Jail
In Georgia, aggressive efforts to incarcerate parents who have not paid
child support are often focused on the poorest of the poor, rather than
on those parents of means who simply choose not to pay. Languishing in
jail for weeks, months, and sometimes more than a year, parents like
Randy go to jail without ever talking to an attorney. Although Georgia
law prohibits the state from continuing to imprison a parent who has no
ability to pay child support, incarcerated parents have no meaningful
ability to demonstrate this to a court unless they have legal
representation.
Read the stories of Georgia parents sent to jail, and watch this short video about their experience.
