1. American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). In for a Penny: The Rise of America’s New Debtors’ Prisons. American Civil Liberties Union, 2010. www.aclu.org/report/penny-rise-americas-new-debtors-prisons.
2. An Act to Amend the Vagrant Laws of the State. Ch. VI § 2. Laws of the State of Mississippi, Passed at a Regular Session of the Mississippi Legislature, Held in the City of Jackson, October, November and December, 1865. Jackson: J. J. Shannon and Co., State Printers, 1866. https://goo.gl/cJfW5k.
3. An Act to Confer Civil Rights on Freedmen, and for Other Purposes. Ch. IV § 7. Laws of the State of Mississippi, Passed at a Regular Session of the Mississippi Legislature, Held in the City of Jackson, October, November and December, 1865. Jackson: J. J. Shannon and Co., State Printers, 1866. https://goo.gl/cJfW5k.
4. An Act to Define and Punish Vagrancy. H. 690, No. 229. General Laws (and Joint Resolutions) of the Legislature of Alabama Passed at the Session of 1903 Held in the Capitol, in the City of Montgomery Commencing Tuesday, January 13th, 1903. Montgomery: Brown Printing Co., Printers and Binders, 1903. https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=R81GAQAAMAAJ&rdid=book-R81GAQAAMAAJ&rdot=1.
5. An Act to Punish Vagrants, Vagabonds, and Dangerous and Suspicious Persons. Ch. 175 § 1. The Statutes of California, Passed at the Sixth Session of the Legislature, Begun on the First Day of January, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-Five, and Ended on the Seventh Day of May, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-Five, at the City of Sacramento. Sacramento: B. B. Redding, State Printer, 1855. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31175020756063&view=1up&seq=239.