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Seizure of Trust Account Interest Violates Takings Clause

Loaded on April 15, 1999 published in Prison Legal News April, 1999, page 26
Filed under: Complaints, Money/Property, Seizure of Prisoner Funds, Interest. Location: California.
The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that prisoners possess a constitutionally protected property interest in the interest earned on prisoner trust accounts.

The California Department of Corrections, (CDC), has established two separate types of trust accounts that prisoners may place their funds into during incarceration. The first, ...

 

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