Black Man sent to Prison Even After Overpaying His Child Support

Clifford Hall photo Courtesy Fox 26

There has been a popular media controversy about Clifford Hall a Black man who has been sent to jail for six months due to a issue with his child support payments. Due to clerical or administrative errors on his job his child support payments where in arrears.

Mr. Hall subsequently paid all his child support payments and then some from what was reported in the media but still was sent to jail for 6 months.  To be honest this is a cloudy civil court case. I I don't know all the details.

But this much I do know. The legal system was obviously abusive to Clifford Hall. I can't help but feel the prison industrial complex is behind moves like these to put more black men behind bars.

A lot of people are going to jail for situations like this. It's a way to justify putting Black men in jail is all I can see. It makes no sense.

He will be charged with paying Child Support while in prison. So when he gets out of prison he will have lost his job and be in arrears again.So technically speaking they can put him in jail again. They're setting him up to fail.

The Prison Industrial complex has a way to send functioning Black men to jail. They know black men are last hired and first fired so if you can't always pay on time they send you to prison.

If you survive prison you now have a record so it's even harder to find a job so you fall behind again. It's a Catch 22.  So now they don't just have thugs and felons as slave labor in prisons they have the working class and middle class guys struggling to be fathers in jail too.

What is great about this strategy is Child Support is a wedge issue between Black men and women. So Black women will most likely not speak out or support Black men who go to prison for this type of mishap. It will cause further division in the Black family and community.

It is quite a racket Texas and other states have going on. I hope people can work together to solve child support cases on their own without going through the legal process.

The courts and the legal system isn't doing what's in the best interest for families and children by locking fathers up who are working hard to be in their children's lives. This trend is a disgrace.

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