Like debtors’ prison, which has slunk back into existence in many localities across the country, taxation by citation should be abolished permanently. Andrew Ross is Professor of Social and Cultural ...

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 ...

Under the law, debtors aren't arrested for nonpayment, but rather for failing to respond to court hearings, pay legal fines, or otherwise showing "contempt of court" in connection with a creditor ...

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.

In The New Debtors’ Prison, Christopher Maselli draws from his personal knowledge of the criminal justice system based on his experience on both sides of the prison walls as an attorney as well ...

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.

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. It is of small dimensions, and will be removed to ...

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

Although debtors' prisons are unconstitutional and prohibited by Ohio law, poor defendants are routinely jailed for failing to pay court fines, the group said in a report.

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Civil rights lawyers are using a new strategy to change a common court practice that they have long argued unfairly targets the poor. At issue is the way courts across the country sometimes issue ...

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 ...