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States Still Using Unconstitutional Debtors Prisons to Jail the Poor
The landmark 1983 U.S. Supreme Court decision Bearden v. Georgia reaffirmed the outlaw of so-called "debtors prisons"—the practice of incarcerating indigent people for being unable to pay off their debts—and requires that judges consider whether defendants are too broke to pay their court fines or if they are "willfully" refusing ...
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