Nearly all states allowing jails and prisons to charge incarcerated people for room and board or medical care highlights a deeper problem: their families, especially Black women, are forced to cover ...

New research reveals how passed-down prison debt drives the loved ones of incarcerated people, particularly Black women, into deeper poverty. With Black people making up 37% of the local jail and ...

*Incarceration fees in 48 states are placing a heavy financial load on families, particularly Black women, according to a new Campaign Zero report. Per Axios, Black individuals make up 37% of jail and ...

HARTFORD, Conn. — Two decades after her release from prison, Teresa Beatty feels she is still being punished. When her mother died two years ago, the state of Connecticut put a lien on the Stamford ...

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 ...