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Not sure if it's applicable in this case,but the UK has an interesting concept where you might end up in a prison with additional years piled on for failure to pay the outstandings.There were some high profile cases were VAT fraudsters kept getting additional years for failing to pay the taxman.

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You won't get prison for the inability to pay... But you might get prison for deliberately not paying even if you can pay, or for lying on government forms/falsifying records.

I could have constructed my previous comment better: yes, nobody's going to prison for sime non-paymens but rather fraudulent activity and failure to compensate the victims of such actions.

The US governments love putting people in jail for inability to pay fines. But mostly <$1000 fines and poor people.

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