About $220,000 of the debt was accumulated for law school at J.D. Widener University/Delaware Law School, after she was already $22,000 in debt from a Master’s at Seton Hall.

Unlock the Debtor’s Prison of Student Loans. Filing bankruptcy on student loans is possible, but few can afford the expense and even fewer get relief. Many, or all, ...

So what kind of sense does it make to take a person’s driver’s license — hampering their ability to get to work or use a ...

What is the history of debtors’ prisons in the United States? From the late 1600s to the early 1800s 2, many cities and states operated actual “debtors’ prisons,” brick-and-mortar facilities that were ...

The anachronism known as debtor’s prison supposedly disappeared centuries ago. But it is ... She said she was able to pay down her debt at a rate of $80 a day by doing groundskeeping and ...

Although debtors' prisons are unconstitutional and prohibited by Ohio law, poor defendants are routinely jailed for failing to pay court fines, the group said in a report.

About $220,000 of the debt was accumulated for law school at J.D. Widener University/Delaware Law School, after she was already $22,000 in debt from a Master’s at Seton Hall.

This history is crucial not only in understanding the debtors’-prison crisis, but also in understanding the pattern of racial disparity that characterizes the region.

Where you can run up more debt. An increasing number of prison systems are charging their inmates for room and board, among them, Taney County in Missouri ($45 a night), New Jersey, where fees are ...

The new debt prisons are not just metaphorical. Criminal justice debt also lands many in actual jail or prison. In 1983, the Supreme Court ruled that jailing indigent debtors violated the 14th ...

Debtors’ prison is back! Not the fetid and dreary kind from Dickens novels, of course, but a shiny, impersonal, high-volume, 21st century variety.