https://padlet.com/bspeers/317ltcbsh523 By Bryanna Speers en-us 2018-11-27 17:31:41 UTC 2021-07-10 20:25:37 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Lightdecrease.png bspeers https://padlet.com/bspeers/317ltcbsh523/wish/308412222 A Christmas Carol]]> 2018-11-27 17:34:06 UTC https://padlet.com/bspeers/317ltcbsh523/wish/308412222 bspeers https://padlet.com/bspeers/317ltcbsh523/wish/308413186 Debitors Prison:]]> 2018-11-27 17:35:25 UTC https://padlet.com/bspeers/317ltcbsh523/wish/308413186 bspeers https://padlet.com/bspeers/317ltcbsh523/wish/308415169 A debtors' prison is a prison for people who are unable to pay debt. Through the mid 19th century, debtors' prisons (usually similar in form to locked workhouses) were a common way to deal with unpaid debt. Also people who where poor and owed debit were punished and people thought that the poor should be punished because they though the poor had chose to be poor.]]> 2018-11-27 17:38:05 UTC https://padlet.com/bspeers/317ltcbsh523/wish/308415169 bspeers https://padlet.com/bspeers/317ltcbsh523/wish/308417554 This is a picture of a Debitors' prison in the Victorian Era (Mid 1800's):]]> 2018-11-27 17:41:34 UTC https://padlet.com/bspeers/317ltcbsh523/wish/308417554 bspeers https://padlet.com/bspeers/317ltcbsh523/wish/308423415 Nearly two centuries ago, the United States formally abolished the incarceration of people who failed to pay off debts. Yet, recent years have witnessed the rise of modern-day debtors' prisons—the arrest and jailing of poor people for failure to pay legal debts they can never hope to afford, through criminal justice procedures that violate their most basic rights.]]> 2018-11-27 17:50:15 UTC https://padlet.com/bspeers/317ltcbsh523/wish/308423415