Today, forty-one states do. This Article traces that history. It begins by examining how debtors’ prisons operated in early America, and then divides analysis between three phases of state ...

Shares in GEO Group and CoreCivic, the two largest publicly traded US prison groups, are rising sharply on the prospect of an ...

The short answer? No, you can't go to jail for credit card debt. I wondered the same thing when I was younger and just learning about credit cards. I even looked up if debtors' prisons were still a ...

Ciffa processed the debtors’ payments using Turpin’s MoneyGram and bank accounts. Last month, the judge sentenced Erica Lounsberry, a manager of other employees, to prison for 21 months on her ...

But the board is not satisfied, which puts O’Bannon in a sort of modern-day debtors’ prison. Today, many people like O’Bannon, who is African American, find themselves trapped in a system of ...

I even looked up if debtors’ prisons were still a thing. (Spoiler: They’re not!) However, that doesn’t mean you’re off the hook if you don’t pay your credit card debt. While debt ...