Apparently not. From
March 10, 2014 Bergen (N.J.) Dispatch:
Back in December over 90,000 people in New Jersey saw an end to their
unemployment with the expiration of federal emergency benefits. This was the
highest share of any state. Another 89,000 New Jersey residents are also set to
lose their benefits during the first six months of 2014 as 63 weeks of
unemployment is shrinking to 26 according to a report published by the House of
Representatives' Ways and Means Committee.
For the Bergen County Jail
this means big business.
In Bergen County being unemployed may get you
thrown in jail. Bergen County residents who are jobless and have fallen behind
on child support or alimony payments face indefinite incarceration in the Bergen
County Jail’s “Work
Release” program.
Brought before a judge every two weeks unemployed
parents incarcerated in the “work release” program are required to report their
efforts in finding a job. Being unemployed in Superior Court in Bergen County is
considered to be by choice and puts you in contempt of court.
If someone is capable of making child support or alimony payments, and refuses, yes, that's contempt of court. But the assumption that anyone who is out of work is
choosing to do so seems like a very arguable claim. Essentially, we are bringing back jailing people for debt associated with a civil process. How Dickensian.
As long as at least one McDonalds or Taco Bell is hiring, every one of them who isn't working is not working by choice. Now if the Dems wanted to really help out, they's start deporting the illegals who are illegally taking jobs that Americans who need to work could be in.
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