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Debtors’ prisons are banned under federal law.
Date: 1838
Economy
Laws/legislation/policy
Prison Industrial Complex
Debtors' prisons previously incarcerated people for failing to pay their debts. However, bankruptcy law subsequently replaces debtors’ prisons, and doesn't stop people with unpaid debts from being incarcerated.
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