New lawsuits allege that court officials are jailing people who fall behind on payment of court fees and fines, leading to a resurgence of debtors' prisons.

Is there an alternative to the punitive treatment of criminals? We look at the history of correctional education reforms within the American prison system.

In a paper for Eighteenth-Century Ireland, Martyn J. Powell discusses the politics that seem to have limited the use of debtors' prisons in Ireland.

While women's prisons historically emphasized the virtues of traditional femininity, the conditions of these prisons were abominable.