imprisonment for debts

Imprisonment for debts is prohibited.

James Wilson, an early justice on the Supreme Court, fled to North Carolina just before he died to avoid imprisonment for debts in Pennsylvania.

The system of debt peonage that lingered in the sierra came under government regulations, albeit weak ones, and imprisonment for debts was finally outlawed in 1918.

The constitution of 1925 provided unprecedented protection of civil and political rights and guarantees, including abolition of the death penalty, individual freedoms, and prohibited imprisonment for debts.

Since the abolition of direct imprisonment for debts not exceeding £20, the Insolvent Debtors Court and, after its abolition, the Bankruptcy Court in London and the county courts in the provinces, had possessed the power of imprisonment for forty days or less upon proof of means to pay or fraud.