On St George’s Day 1684 there was an explosion which destroyed the interior of Clifford’s Tower. At the time townsfolk used to toast the potential demolition of what they were accustomed to call the ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma may be emerging as a leader among states in eliminating court-ordered fees that in the past have essentially left many former inmates in “debtors’ prison” long ...

About Yamacraw Bluff The tale begins in London in the 1730s; Tom Ellis is trapped in debt and heading for the Fleet, a notorious debtors’ prison. By happenstance, Tom is sucked into a fight, defending ...

Aged 12, Dickens was sent to work at a boot-blacking factory when his father was imprisoned in Marshalsea debtors prison. His father owed £40 - the same amount as Edward, Amy Dorrit's brother.

The Fleet Prison was built in 1197, sitting alongside the River Fleet, now long buried underneath Farringdon Street. Notorious for imprisoning debtors and for its poor conditions, it was destroyed ...

Attempts were made to reform prisons as early as the seventeenth century. Then in 1728 Thomas Bambridge, warden of the Fleet Prison, sent a well-connected debtor, Robert Castell, to a sponging house ...

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 ...

By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Missouri city will pay nearly $3 million to settle a lawsuit accusing it of violating the constitutional rights of residents by jailing them and ...

A debtor’s prison? Not even students who took out loans can agree on whether college debt should be forgiven Updated: Jun. 09, 2023, 11:40 p.m. | Published: Jun. 09, 2023, 7:35 a.m.

As a plaintiff in other debtors’ prison lawsuits in St. Louis, news of the $3.25 million settlement with Maplewood is good because it’s progress. But, to this day, not one of the nearby cities ...

Maplewood police in Missouri issued 84,906 tickets between 2011 and 2021, and its municipal court generated $6.4 million in revenue. […] The post City to pay $3.25M in debtors’ prison lawsuit ...