“You wouldn’t think you’d go to jail over medical bills”: County in rural Kansas is jailing people over unpaid medical debt
It’s heartbreaking and infuriating all at once; a scenario that anyone with mounting medical debt has likely considered: severe punishment for failure to pay their bills. But, jail? Is that even legal? Recently ProPublica, a non-profit newsroom that investigates abuses of power, released the results of a shocking investigation. If you live in Coffeyville, Kansas,




