"How often are debtors arrested across the country?

"How often are debtors arrested across the country? No one can say. No national statistics are kept, and the practice is largely unnoticed outside legal circles. "My suspicion is the debt collection industry does not want the world to know these arrests are happening, because the practice would be widely condemned," said Robert Hobbs, deputy director of the National Consumer Law Center in Boston."

I thought, since there were no laws for this, there would be no way for the police to arrest, the DA to charge and the judge to judge you. Am I wrong?
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