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Today's Poll!Appeals Court: Inmate should get day in court
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
A state prison inmate should get his chance to fight a state effort to take some of his money, the state appeals court in Kansas City ruled Tuesday.
The nine-page decision, written by Judge Gary D. Witt, ordered Cole County Circuit Judge Jon Beetem to set aside the previous default judgment and hold a hearing on the issues.
At issue is the 1988 “Missouri Incarceration Reimbursement Act,” or MIRA, which allows state government to seek reimbursement for some of the costs of incarceration from an inmate or former inmate.
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wow 11 months, 3 weeks ago
Every one of these inmmates should be paying for their incarceration, the meals they are feed during that time and whatever other services they receive while locked away at the city, county or state. Allowing them to otherwise only amonts to them being given free room and board. They should work and pay for everything they get...then for those that are released, when they are returned to society, perhaps they will have a better sense of what it feels like to work hard and eran a n honest dollar.
eileen10 11 months, 3 weeks ago
I agree! They also get free medical care which really chaps my behind!
muleman 11 months, 3 weeks ago
Oh yeah, explain why a meth head on death row needs his teeth fixed
muleman 11 months, 3 weeks ago
Back in the day the state prison system was self sufficient. They made their clothes, shoes, and bedding. The state owned large farms where the inmates worked to produce their own food and milk. No one got a free ride. Political favors has changed that to what we have today by allowing companies to provide these things. Politicians even went so far as to say that the farms were not profitable. With free labor the only way that can be true is because of bad management. Guess who the managers were?
asb 11 months, 3 weeks ago
It wouldn't matter how well prison farms were managed, farm profits are too narrow even with willing labor. Prison farms, clothing, roadwork, shoes, etc. were competition for the private sector and were all ended to reduce competition. Ag can get willing immigrants cheaper than prison labor so forget it.
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