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Are We Returning to Debtor's Prisons? On Tuesday's Access Utah

Marta Nimeva Nimeviene

  We recently received an email from a listener: “I wanted to suggest a potential topic to explore in an upcoming show. I came across an article in the [Odgen] Standard Examiner the other day about a man getting arrested for an unpaid ambulance bill. He died while in jail."

"I can't believe we are still arresting people for not being able to pay things like medical bills. I'm curious how prevalent this practice is and how this type of arrest affects otherwise law-abiding citizens? Is reform needed?”  Have we returned to the concept of debtors’ prison? We’ll talk about in Tuesday’s Access Utah.

Tom Williams worked as a part-time UPR announcer for a few years and joined Utah Public Radio full-time in 1996. He is a proud graduate of Uintah High School in Vernal and Utah State University (B. A. in Liberal Arts and Master of Business Administration.) He grew up in a family that regularly discussed everything from opera to religion to politics. He is interested in just about everything and loves to engage people in conversation, so you could say he has found the perfect job as host “Access Utah.” He and his wife Becky, live in Logan.