The answer is C the colony of Georgia was founded as an alternative to prison for those in debt. It was originally for people in England who could not pay their taxes so they sent them to prison but the prisons filled up. So they developed Debtors prison. Many debtors (that is what they called them) died on the ship coming here. It was soon shutdown by a man named James Oglethorpe He was one of the original founders of the Georgia colony. He was upset about the prison after his close friend died of a disease while in the prison.