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The Shackles Return: Why Debtors’ Prisons Are Making An American Comeback
The debtors’ prison is an old, decrepit institution that many thought was abolished in the 19th century, something little more than a relic of the past. This is a problematic view for two reasons.
Read More »Kids For Cash Scheme Exposes Horrors of For-Profit Prisons: Documentary
The fact that the United States leads the world in prison population is becoming common knowledge. Somewhat lesser known is the direct connection between corporate prisons and incarceration rates. There is no starker example
Read More »The Debtors Prison System Resurrected From The Grave
Debtors prisons have a sordid history that was thought to be best left behind in Medieval Europe and in Charles Dickens' fictionalized accounts of the 19th-century hellholes of Victorian England.
Read More »Debtors Prisons In The US Are Rapidly Filling With People Who Can’t Pay Bills
How did breast cancer survivor Lisa Lindsay end up behind bars? She didn't pay a medical bill -- one the Herrin, Ill., teaching assistant was told she didn't owe. "She got a $280 medical bill
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