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Texas Counties Set To Raid State Prisoners Trust Fund Accounts
Loaded on April 15, 2006
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2006, page 7
Texas Counties Set To Raid State Prisoners Trust Fund Accounts
by Matthew T. Clarke
Partially in response to legislation making it mandatory by 2007 for Texas counties to establish programs to collect fines, costs, restitution and fees from Texas state prisoners and partially on their own, several Texas counties have ...
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