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  2. Criminal-justice financial obligations in the United States

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    The Council of State Governments includes in their definition unpaid child support, observing that in a study of one state, those released from prison on average owed more than $20,000 in child support alone. [4] Those upon whom CJFOs are imposed are referred to as legal debtors or billable inmates. [2] [5] [6]

  3. Debtors' prison - Wikipedia

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    The 18th-century debtors' prison at the Castellania in Valletta, now the offices of the Health Ministry in Malta. 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) were a common way to deal with unpaid debt in Western Europe. [1]

  4. Debtors' Prison Relief Act of 1792 - Wikipedia

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    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 on May 5, 1792. The Act of Congress established penal regulations and restrictions for persons jailed for property debt, tax evasion , and tax resistance .

  5. Debtors' Prison Is Back -- and Just as Cruel as Ever - AOL

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    To most of us, "debtors' prison" sounds like an archaic institution, something straight out of a Dickens novel. But the idea of jailing people who can't pay what they owe is alive and well in 21st ...

  6. America's new debtor prison: Jail time being given to those ...

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    Debtors prisons were federally abolished in the United States in the 1800's, yet in certain states, they seem to be making a comeback. Out of Minnesota come disturbing reports of Americans being ...

  7. Category:Debtors' prisons - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Debtors' prisons" The following 47 pages are in this category, out of 47 total. ... Statistics; Cookie statement; Mobile view ...

  8. Category:Insolvency - Wikipedia

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    Debtors' prisons (2 C, 47 P) I. ... Pages in category "Insolvency" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total. ... Statistics; Cookie statement;

  9. List of U.S. states and territories by incarceration and ...

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    From the source report: "This graph shows the number of people in state prisons, local jails, federal prisons, and other systems of confinement from each U.S. state and territory per 100,000 people in that state or territory and the incarceration rate per 100,000 in all countries with a total population of at least 500,000." [26]