A debtors' prison is a prison for people who are unable to pay debt. Until the mid-19th century, debtors' prisons (usually similar in form to locked workhouses)...

uses Debtors with Mildness, and Malefactors with Rigour; England, on the contrary, shews Mercy to Murtherers and Robbers, but of poor Debtors Impossibilities...

Creditor's rights Debtors' prison Liquidation Simplified Individual Voluntary Arrangement Protected Trust Deed (only available in Scotland) "Debtor". Investopedia...

The Debtors' Prison Dublin is a historic debtors' prison in Dublin’s north inner city, between Halston Street and Green Street. While it is listed on Dublin...

youngest child of her family, born and raised in the Marshalsea prison for debtors in London. Arthur Clennam encounters her after returning home from...

tried and committed to the King's Bench Prison, a debtors' prison in Southwark. Prisoners in a debtors' prison were allowed to have their family with them...

The Debtors' Prison is a historic debtors' prison in Accomac, Virginia. Constructed in 1783 as a house for the Accomack County jailer, it is the oldest...

London's debtors. Over half of England's prisoners in the 18th century were in jail because of debt. Run privately for profit, as were all English prisons until...

Master Mason. In 1842 it became the Queen's Prison taking debtors from the Marshalsea and Fleet Prisons and sending lunatics to Bedlam. Fees and the...

rebellious subjects brought to London for trial. The prison housed both male and female felons and debtors. Prisoners were separated into wards by sex. By...

a boot-blacking factory when his father John was incarcerated in a debtors' prison. After three years, he returned to school before beginning his literary...

great (or labor valued so low) that the debt will never be repaid—and debtors' prison. Debt slavery can persist across generations, future generations being...

Debtors' Prison Relief Act of 1792 was a United States federal statute enacted into law by the first President of the United States George Washington...

inmates. In 1745 a temporary prison was used, as the Clink was too decayed to use, but by 1776 the prison was again taking in debtors. It was burnt down in 1780...

www.bop.gov. Retrieved July 7, 2023. Staff Writer (April 14, 2009). "Debtors' prison – again". The Tampa Bay Times. United States. Archived from the original...

Castle Museum. The Debtor's Prison was originally built as the County Gaol in 1701–05 due to an act of Parliament, the Insolvent Debtors Relief Act 1702...

years ago. Judge Milas Hale, who is accused of running a modern-day debtors' prison in Sherwood, Ark., sentenced the mother to jail; the Huffington Post...

became the butt of moralistic tales, in which his typical fate was debtors' prison, venereal disease, or, in the case of William Hogarth's A Rake's Progress...

Micawber, who treats David like his own son; Micawber is sent to a debtors' prison shortly afterwards. When he is released, he and his family are forced...

form of a medieval German folk tale of the forgotten peasant in the debtors' prison. "Baby mit Ketchup", Der Spiegel, 19 March 1990, archived from the...

short periods immediately before trial. The castle also served as a debtors' prison. In the 18th century it became more common for county gaols to hold...

and debtors prison at various times. Between 1773 and 1781, a new prison designed by Thomas Cooley was built to replace the earlier ruined prison. It...

detain debtors. In England, debtors owing money could be easily detained by the courts for indefinite periods, being kept in debtor's prisons. Approximately...

onboard mechanic is advised", to describe driver discomfort "Bangkok debtors' prison" was used. In a comparison test the Lamborghini Diablo was found better...

across longer time periods, effectively placing them in a debt trap. Debtors' prisons were federally banned in 1833, but over a third of states in 2011 allowed...

gallery was built to link the museum in the Female Prison with the Debtors' Prison. The Debtor's Prison was originally built as the County Gaol in 1701–1705...

percentage of the total amount owed. Historically, debtors could face debt slavery, debtor's prison, or coercive collection methods. In the 21st century...

Yorkshire, and was used as a gaol and debtors' prison. Prison reform in the 19th century led to the creation of a new prison built in a Tudor Gothic style on...

serves his country abroad and returns to rescue the dying Eliza from a debtors' prison; he raises her illegitimate daughter, and fights a duel with her seducer;...

widow, Agnes, renovated and extended Ludgate and the debtor's prison; the practice of making the debtors pay for their own food and lodging was also abolished...