Is there such a thing as a modern-day debtors' prison? Not literally, as debtors' prisons were outlawed by Congress in 1833. However, a recent ACLU report on the criminalization of private debt points ...

"It was an immense and solid building, erected at vast expense. I could not help thinking, as we approached the gate, what an uproar would have been made in the country, if any deluded man had ...

George Richey watches people cross Main Street as he waits for the post office to open so he can mail letters to a friend. While living in Appleton City, Mo., he has been unable to receive bills that ...

".. Examines changing attitudes towards insolvency and their importance to the economy and self-image of the early American republic. Mann, a professor of law and history at the University of ...