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Missouri Seizes Prisoner Assets Worth $748,682 In 2005
Loaded on July 15, 2006
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2006, page 29
A more accurate motto for the show me state may be the show me the money state. In 2005 Attorney General Jay Nixon confiscated $748,682 from Missouris most oppressed residents--state prisoners.The money was seized under the 1988 Missouri Incarceration Reimbursement Act, which allows the state to pirate up to …
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