The ACLU is currently fighting battles against debtors’ prisons in 15 different states that it has identified as violating the rights of indigent Americans. Yet even with reforms being ...

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 ...

A federal judge on Tuesday preliminarily approved a $4.5 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit brought against Ferguson in 2015 over an alleged debtors' prison scheme. The suit involved ...

Through the stories in A Debtors’ Prison, students will understand how aggressive policing, court fees and monetary sentencing have created a cycle of debt and incarceration in poor communities ...

That same judgment accused Harpersville of operating a "debtors' prison", though the judge noted that "a more accurate description of the Harpersville Municipal Court practices might be that of a ...