Woman Jailed For Failing To Return Books

Family Can't Afford Fine; Woman Spends 6 Days In Jail

POSTED: 1:34 pm CST March 2, 2008

BELOIT, Wis. -- In Beloit, failing to return overdue library books is apparently a serious offense. It landed Keely Givhan behind bars for six days.

Beloit Public Library director Dan Zack said when books aren't returned, the library sends three overdue notices. After the third notice, a citation is sent that could include court date.

Givhan said she was in the process of moving so she never got the notices.

When a police officer pulled her over for a traffic violation in November, the officer found out about her outstanding warrant and took her to jail.

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"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." ~ Schopenhauer

“How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.” - Adolf Hitler

"We should never forget that everything Adolf Hilter did in Germany was 'legal'" - Martin Luther King Jr., from a Birmingham jail, April 16, 1963.

Look a crime is a crime. If you let her get away with a small crime what next ? Will she 'cook the books" for some company ? She took public property for her own use. If you do not stop the petty criminal his crimes will escallate. This woman is a "scofflaw".

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"To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. "- Thomas Paine

That depends on what the meaning of the word "is" is...

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"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." ~ Schopenhauer

“How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.” - Adolf Hitler

"We should never forget that everything Adolf Hilter did in Germany was 'legal'" - Martin Luther King Jr., from a Birmingham jail, April 16, 1963.