Jacque Schrag/Axios Almost all states allow jails and prisons to charge incarcerated people medical and "room and board" fees, locking them into cycles of debt and possibly more incarceration, an ...

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 ...

Well, it should. Congress abolished debtors' prisons in 1833. Key Takeaways. No, debt collectors cannot have you arrested for unpaid credit card debt.

JONESBORO, Ark. (KAIT) - A former Craighead County clerk serving a prison sentence for embezzling county money still owes ...

A look at the people who are headed to prison after a federal investigation into debt collection businesses whose illegal schemes date back to 2015.

STAMFORD — A New York man was sentenced to 50 years in prison Wednesday despite a last-minute effort to withdraw a guilty ...