Today, forty-one states do. This Article traces that history. It begins by examining how debtors’ prisons operated in early America, and then divides analysis between three phases of state ...

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

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 ...

Kevin Stitt (R-Okla.) discussed the issue of burdensome court costs, fees, and fines, likening them to a "debtors prison." The governor advocated for reforms to aid former prisoners in their ...