Men in prison face crushing child support debt. This excellent article, written by Eli Hager at the Marshall Project, is based on interviews with a number of incarcerated men.
“Billing poor fathers doesn’t help poor mothers and kids become less poor,” said Jacquelyn Boggess, a poverty expert with the Center for Family Policy and Practice. “All it creates is a highly indebted individual.”
This graph obviously applies to Missouri, not the Delta.