For Cecily McMillan, getting mail while incarcerated was a complex project. Any letter that was sent to her went through a metal detector and was opened by correctional officers before landing in the ...

Andrew Lewis pays $320 a month on his student loans. Daniel Chung doesn’t know how much debt he’ll end up with on top of the $7,500 he already has. The rising college senior plans to go to law school, ...

The short answer? No, you can’t go to jail for credit card debt. I wondered the same thing when I was younger and just learning about credit cards. I even looked up if debtors’ prisons were still a ...

"It was an immense and solid building, erected at vast expense. I could not help thinking, as we approached the gate, what an uproar would have been made in the country, if any deluded man had ...

Debtors’ prisons are back. The justice system creates debt with tickets for quality-of-life offenses, proliferating court fees and criminal fines. Those who do not pay are threatened with jail. This ...

Are debtors’ prisons a thing of the past? Congress banned them in 1833. The Supreme Court also held, in 1983, that incarcerating indigent individuals for failure to pay a fine is indeed ...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The St. Louis suburb where Michael Brown was fatally shot by a police officer has agreed to pay $4.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that accused it of operating a so-called ...

In St. Louis County, the home of police-shooting victim Michael Brown, a practice with a long history has become systematic: the operation of modern-day debtors’ prisons. A Debtors' Prison follows two ...

No, debt collectors cannot have you arrested for unpaid credit card debt. However, if you are sued and don't comply with a court order, you can be arrested. You can manage your credit card debt by ...