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  2. 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 .

  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. Pay-to-stay (imprisonment) - Wikipedia

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    In modern times pay-to-stay programs have been noted for their low debt collection rate that often range between 10 and 15 percent due to people being in pay-to-stay being much more likely to suffer from poverty; over a two fiscal year period, Eaton County, Michigan collected only around 5% of over $1 million charged in pay-to-stay fees.

  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. North Texas woman gets life in prison in $31 million ... - AOL

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    A North Texas woman was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for her role in helping her partner con millions of dollars out of senior citizens through an investment business, the Tarrant County ...

  7. Giles W. Dalby Correctional Institution - Wikipedia

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    The Giles W. Dalby Correctional Institution was a privately operated jail located in Post, Garza County, Texas, operated by the Management and Training Corporation under contract with the state of Texas [1] The facility is owned by the county. It opened in 1999, houses state detainees, and has a working capacity of 1776.

  8. Ferguson, Missouri, agrees to pay $4.5 million to settle ...

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    The St. Louis suburb where Michael Brown was fatally shot by a police officer has agreed to pay $4.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that accused it of operating a so-called debtors' prison.

  9. Bankruptcy in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Originally, bankruptcy in the United States, as nearly all matters directly concerning individual citizens, was a subject of state law. However, there were several short-lived federal bankruptcy laws before the Act of 1898: the Bankruptcy Act of 1800, [3] which was repealed in 1803; the Act of 1841, [4] which was repealed in 1843; and the Act of 1867, [5] which was amended in 1874 [6] and ...