Oh, just proves every people has their own assholes to me. Basically, the man does not want to pay out the "dowry", would be the closest word I think. Part of the ketubah, marriage contract (yes, we have a long tradition of prenuptial agreements!), says the man must pay out a significant amount of money to the woman when he divorces her. There are now Jewish lawyers who are having "properly grant a get to the woman" added to the civil divorce agreement. But these codicils are only being used in areas that know about this issue. In Israel the rabbis have enough authority to imprison the man until he "voluntarily chooses to grant the get", but obviously no such authority in other places.

Now, abusers are going to abuse in any way they can which includes religious abuse in this case, but I'm more angry at the specific rabbis who are willing to enable this abusive behavior as long as it's the men acting like this.

There was an Israeli case where the woman would not accept the get a few years ago, and she was imprisoned until agreeing to accept the divorce, if I remember correctly. Link: https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-precedent-rabbis-send-woman-to-jail-for-refusing-divorce-from-her-husband/