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This is a list of prisons and other secure correctional facilities in Canada, not including local jails. In Canada , all offenders who receive a sentence of 24 months or greater must serve their sentence in a federal correctional facility administered by the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC).
Pages in category "Companies that have filed for bankruptcy in Canada" The following 106 pages are in this category, out of 106 total.
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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]
Upper Canada was a cash-poor province without its own currency. As a result, the economy of the province was based upon credit-debt relationships. To be in debt was to be in danger of indefinite imprisonment. The only protection was a reputation for being able to pay those debts - "respectability" indicated a person's credit-worthiness.
In 2016, Weinberg was sentenced to 8 years and 11 months in prison, and is currently on parole. [4] HIH Insurance: Australia: 15 March 2001: Insurance: In early 2000, after increase in size of the business, it was determined that the insurance company's solvency was marginal, and a small asset price change could see the insurance company become ...
Pages in category "People imprisoned for debt" The following 119 pages are in this category, out of 119 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The person who is unable to pay his obligation is considered to be an insolvent person under the BIA. Under s. 2 of the BIA, an "insolvent person" is a person who is not bankrupt and who resides, carries on business, or has property in Canada, whose liabilities to creditors provable as claims under this Act amount to $1,000, and