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It does not include federal prisons or county jails, nor does it include the North Texas State Hospital; though the facility houses those classified as "criminally insane" (such as Andrea Yates) the facility is under the supervision of the Texas Department of State Health Services. Facilities listed are for males unless otherwise stated.
Pages in category "Debtors' prisons" The following 47 pages are in this category, out of 47 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
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]
Joe Kegans Intermediate Sanctions Facility is an Intermediate Sanctions facility of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice located along the northeast edge of Downtown Houston, Texas. [1] The approximately 1 acre (0.40 ha) facility for men is located .5 miles (0.80 km) south of Interstate 10. [2]
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 ...
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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]
The Texas Innocence Project estimates that Texas prisons contain 3,000 to 9,000 innocent people, which is about 2% to 6% of the total prison population. “All it takes is a false accusation and a ...