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Rhode Island Fee Violates Ex Post Facto
Loaded on Sept. 15, 1996
published in Prison Legal News
September, 1996, page 19
A federal district court in Rhode Island held that a DOC policy imposing a monthly supervision fee on probationers convicted before enactment of the statute allowing assessment of such fees violated the ex post facto provisions of the U.S. and Rhode Island constitutions. Rhode Island general laws § 42-56-38 provide ...
Filed under:
Sentencing,
Ex Post Facto,
Parole,
Probation,
Seizure of Prisoner Funds.
Location:
Rhode Island.
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