Andrew Lewis pays $320 a month on his student loans. Daniel Chung doesn’t know how much debt he’ll end up with on top of the $7,500 he already has. The rising college senior plans to go to law ...

Mississippi Clarion Ledger. Corinth has settled a federal lawsuit accusing the city of running a modern-day debtors' prison, which has been outlawed for 200 years.

Lawsuit: Jackson runs what amounts to debtors' prison. Mollie Bryant, and Jerry Mitchell. The Clarion-Ledger.

File photo. A report from the National Consumer Law Center assigned Virginia a grade of “D” in 2024 for what it calls weak exemption laws designed to protect debtors from further impoverishment.