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State | Statute | Description/Statute Name | Statutory language | Type of poverty penalty or poverty trap | Level of offense | Mandatory | |
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Alaska | AK Const. Art. 1, § 17 | Imprisonment for Debt |
There shall be no imprisonment for debt. This section does not prohibit civil arrest of absconding debtors. |
Incarceration | All | Yes |
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Kansas | Kan. Stat. Ann. § 22-3425(1) | Commitment for failure to pay fine and costs |
(1) When a defendant is adjudged to pay a fine and costs, the court may order him to be committed to the county jail until such fine and costs are + See morepaid or may make an order providing for the payment of such fines and costs in installments.
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Incarceration | All | No |
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Kansas | K.S.A. Const. Bill of Rights § 16 | Imprisonment for debt | No person shall be imprisoned for debt, except in cases of fraud. | Incarceration | All | Yes |
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Rhode Island | R.I. Gen. Laws. Ann. § 12-21-9 | Commitment for failure to obey judgment or sentence |
If any person against whom sentence is passed or judgment rendered, under any penal statute, shall refuse or neglect to perform the sentence or to pay the judgment, he or she shall, by order of the court passing the sentence or by the officer charged with the execution issued on the judgment, be committed to the adult correctional institutions, and be imprisoned there until the sentence is performed or he or she is discharged by due course of law.
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Incarceration | All | No |
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