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 ...

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A Debtors' Prison follows two plaintiffs in an unfolding court case, Samantha Jenkins and Meredith Walker, as they describe the matrix of controls that subjected them to incarceration for being poor.

Hey, guess what? Debtors’ prison is back! Not the fetid and dreary kind from Dickens novels, of course, but a shiny, impersonal, high-volume, 21st century variety. It all revolves around ...

James Burns, the director, joined us to talk about the modern-day debtors’ prison. On why citizens are ending up in these prisons: I traveled to St. Louis County where there are 90 municipalities.

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In Missouri, two plaintiffs describe their treatment in modern-day debtors' prison. In the hometown of police shooting victim Michael Brown and the surrounding municipalities, a practice with ...

In "Allen's History of London," published in the year 1828, I find it stated that "the Fleet Prison in Farringdon-street is a prison for debtors.

Paying their debt to society 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 ...

Though de jure debtors’ prisons are a thing of the past, de facto debtors’ imprisonment is not. So what do we really know about modern-day debtors’ imprisonment – how it returned, when, and where?

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… ...

Even without debtors' prisons to contend with, getting credit card debt under control can still be overwhelming. Here are a few methods you can use to help alleviate some of that anxiety.