Tag Archives: debtor’s prison

A struggling dad was kidnapped and caged because he was unable to pay a $1,941 bill, payable to the government of Philadelphia.

A single mother of three was unable to pay an ambulance bill from 2014, so police kidnapped her and threw her in a cage.

In a highly illegal practice, breaking several national and state laws against jailing people over private debts, thousands of people are being kidnapped and caged after being turned over to collection agencies.

The DOJ has rescinded a legal guidance that requires courts to stop the imprisonment of poor individuals because they cannot pay court fines and fees.

A judge sent a cancer patient to jail for 90 days because he couldn't pay court fees, but the judge and city have run this debtors' prison for years.

For the first time ever, the DoJ told a federal appeals court that holding the indigent in jail for not paying bail violates the 14th Amendment.

This case is a tragic example illustrating that debtor's prisons are alive and well in the Land of the Free.

Not paying your medical bill can be deadly in a police state.

The US government just launched a program far worse than any debtor's prison.

In an eye-opening video by the ACLU, it is revealed that private companies have been helping to put poor people behind bars for debt collection, a practice that was outlawed almost two hundred years ago.