Thursday, September 10, 2009
FORMER OK CASA ASSOCIATION DIRECTOR SENTENCED TO 35 YEARS FOR EMBEZZLING
Read this Tulsa World article at http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=12&articleid=20090904_12_0_OKLAHO586318&allcom=1.
Read this Tulsa World article at http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=12&articleid=20090904_12_0_OKLAHO586318&allcom=1.
Monday, September 07, 2009
COLLECTING CHILD SUPPORT--"CAN'T WE DO BETTER?"
Recently incarcerated "Deadbeat Dad" Smoky Weiner writes, "I have a special place in my heart for inmates since I was in the 'Father Jail' for three days a few months back. Yes, the Charleston County Jail is where you go when you are $550 behind in child support. I met a guy in there who was only $179 behind."
He goes on to write:
Yes Smoky, we can do better. Whether we will is another question.In all, 23 out of the 70 guys were in there for nonpayment of child support. They kept us in one large room with two toilets. The whole jail population was about one-third fathers. I want to point this out because the county is building a new jail costing millions of dollars partly to house working fathers. These fathers are right now costing taxpayers instead of being one of them.Family Court judges are tossing people into prison as though it solves the problem. The fact is that times are worse for more people now. If you can't find a job or can't make enough money at your job to pay what the court orders, then jail is where you will wind up. Can't we do better?
Labels: "Deadbeat Dads", Child Support Collection, Problems at DSS
