Choose well, make money and the business will survive. Choose badly, and the businessman could end up in debtors' prison.

Dickens is a name synonymous with the cold, winding, dark streets of Victorian England; colourful and ... and told very little about it. Debtors prisons were a constant presence looming over ...

Through the stories in A Debtors’ Prison, students will understand how aggressive policing, court fees and monetary sentencing have created a cycle of debt and incarceration in poor communities ...