Debtor’s Prison’s core mission is to bring to light the struggles of the Student Loan Boomerang Generation.  This is for students who borrow so heavily that money that would otherwise go to rent and starting a life ends up going towards student loans.  The loss of this money sends them back home to their parents, parents who expected that the sacrifices of their whole family would lead to the financial security of their children.

Debtor’s Prison addresses these struggles with a core team of six writers united in debt with different backgrounds and experiences.  Their commentary focuses on 1) testimonial advice for individuals in-debt and those considering borrowing 2) commentary on policy initiatives that will hurt or benefit the generation as a whole.

This is a forum for a silent phenomenon.  Inmates in Debtor’s Prison are often forced to pretend they have the generational wealth that many of the individuals who are seeking to enter their chosen professions at the end of their educations (JDs, MBAs, MDs, PhDs).  When they are no longer able to surf the tidal wave of debt and things begin to slip through the cracks their debtless peers and even their own families (whose experience in school a generation ago was very different) begin to view them as failures.  This is a rebuttal to the default judgment against us.