Breast Cancer Survivor Jailed Over $280 Medical Bill 'Debtor's Prisons' Return to the U.S | Before It's News

Breast Cancer Survivor Jailed Over $280 Medical Bill 'Debtor's Prisons' Return to the U.S~How did breast cancer survivor Lisa Lindsay end up behind bars? She didn't pay a medical bill -- one the Herrin, Ill., teaching assistant was told she didn't owe. "She got a $280 medical bill in error and was told she didn't have to pay it,"The Associated Press reports. "But the bill was turned over to a collection agency, and eventually state troopers showed up at her home and took her to jail in handcuffs.