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Voluntary Agreement with MINNCOR Not Enforceable Contract
Loaded on May 15, 2001
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2001, page 20
Voluntary Agreement With MINNCOR Not Enforceable Contract
Filed under:
Work,
Prison Labor,
Seizure of Prisoner Funds,
Ashurst Summers Act.
Location:
Minnesota.
A state court of appeals in Minnesota has held that the Voluntary Agreement signed by prisoners laboring under MINNCOR's administration is not an enforceable contract.
Kenneth Murray, a Minnesota state prison, filed suit in state court alleging MINNOCR, a division of the Minnesota ...
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