Thomas Hosmer Shepard's 19th-century painting of a debtor in Fleet Street Prison isn't as dated as it looks. The phenomenon of debtors' prisons creates a two-tiered justice system. For poor people ...

FLEET PRISON AND THE OTHER DEBTORS' JAILS THE "SAM WELLER CABMAN" CHANGES SINCE "PICKWICK" WAS WRITTEN. Share full article. From the London Telegraph, June 26. July 8, 1879; ...

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

Upending a law that at its peak jailed 660,000 people yearly, South Africa’s highest court has ruled debtors prison unconstitutional. Studies of those jailed for debt had found that more than 80 ...

The concept of a debtors’ prison can be understood through the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which abolished slavery, except as a punishment for a crime.