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Oklahoma Regulation Confiscating Money Order From Other Prisoner’s Family Upheld
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2007
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2007, page 42
Oklahoma Regulation Confiscating Money Order From Other Prisoner's Family Upheld
Filed under:
Legality of Rules,
Money/Property,
Seizure of Prisoner Funds,
Prisoner Property.
Location:
Oklahoma.
The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld an Oklahoma State Penitentiary (OSP) regulation that allows money sent to prisoners by a person on another prisoner's visitation list to be classified as contraband and confiscated by OSP.
The action was ...
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