Something major is wrong, isn't it?

[EmeraldCityGrl]

20. No. This is what is so frightening. The one I'm the most familiar

with agreed last Sept. to make $300 payments every month until the
$5000 debt was paid. All legal procedures were done without their
knowledge until two days after the seizure when they received the
court docs in the mail. They had no opportunity to consult an attorney,
consumer advocate nothing. I lent them the money for rent and others
gave them groceries. This is a family with small children. The seizure
took every dime they had in the account even an overdraft of $100.

The next step is debtors prison which I would have laughed at a couple
years ago. With the privatization of the prison industrial complex, continued
loss of constitutional rights I'm no longer laughing. Leaving a working
family destitute without an opportunity for legal recourse to satisfy a collection
agency (Alliance One) is beyond the pale.