Making prisoners pay

NY Times letter:

Perhaps the most frequent cost we confront at the Fortune Society with men returning from prison is child support. A man paying $400 a month in child support does not have a suspension of bills while incarcerated. If he is locked up five years, he will be faced with a bill of $24,000 accumulated during all the time he was locked up and had no income.

If a man has no money, then he should not have to pay.