[fwdude]

How about no one can be jailed for truancy. Fines yes. Locked up no.

You apparently didn't read the article. She had racked up fines. What if the offender never pays the fines?

Are the authorities just going to keep asking "pretty please?" in perpetuity? Stupid.

[4yearlurker]

Garnish wages. Sheriffs sale?

[Boogieman]

“What if the offender never pays the fines?

Are the authorities just going to keep asking “pretty please?” in perpetuity? Stupid.”

You act as if there is no middle ground between jail and saying “pretty please”. Well, what if someone owes you money? You cannot send them to jail, so are you left with no other option but saying “pretty please”? Of course not.

What is “stupid” is you pretending that all the normal avenues of debt collection simply don’t exist, in order to justify the government jailing people over nonsense like this.

[driftdiver]

The daily cost of having her in jail is probably higher then her debt..

[Lurker]

It’s called a “lien”, you idiot.