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 ...

The rising college senior plans to go to law school, and he said he will have to borrow to get there. “It’s worse than debtor’s prison,” said Smita Nadia Hussain, who owes $80,000 on her ...

Prisoners earnings can vary across the UK, across different prisons and even within them. As Matty worked in a Recycling ...

The rising college senior plans to go to law school, and he said he will have to borrow to get there. “It’s worse than debtor’s prison,” said Smita Nadia Hussain, who owes $80,000 on her ...

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 ...

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.

Whatever happened to York Castle? DAVID WILSON lifts the lid on the sad tale. MY Canadian friend Zoe had visited Warwick, Lincoln and Edinburgh, and on her way back down south she ...

A Missouri city will pay nearly $3 million to settle a lawsuit accusing it and six other St. Louis suburbs of violating the constitutional rights of residents by jailing them and forcing them to ...

The prison holds about 100 more inmates than the roughly 1,100 for which it is designed. The candidates have estimated the cost of a new building at between $100 million and $150 million.

On Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2024, a St. Louis-based public interest law firm announced that the city of Florissant, Mo., will pay nearly $3 million to settle a so-called debtor's prison lawsuit that ...

On Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2024, a St. Louis-based public interest law firm announced that the city of Florissant, Mo., will pay nearly $3 million to settle a so-called debtor's prison lawsuit that ...