imprisoned debtor

Its beginnings were as a resettlement colony for imprisoned debtors.

Imprisoned debtors were allowed some social contact but the regime for criminals was designed to be one of isolation, according to the separate system.

Hong Kong has long imprisoned debtors from its tradition as a British colony.

Thus, directly and indirectly they worked to alleviate the situations of orphans, the sick poor, imprisoned debtors, condemned criminals, prostitutes and their daughters.

The term is also used in regard to a similar obligation of other parties, as of creditors to imprisoned debtors, the payments by parishes to paupers, etc.

Instead, the main role of the colonial American jail was as a non-punitive detention facility for pre-trial and pre-sentence criminal defendants, as well as imprisoned debtors.

The reviewer of his book in the Edinburgh Review thought half of the thousands of imprisoned debtors had been reduced to their state by 'venial errors' or innocent misfortune.

He is also known as the author of The Cry of the Oppressed (1691), an account of the conditions in which imprisoned debtors lived in debtors' jails in England.

Their plan was a simple one: pay the imprisoned debtors' debts, plus the fees demanded for their clearance and what they owed the keeper for lodgings and the rest, and they could be released.