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Kentucky Prisoners Requesting Account Statement Must Pay Required Fee

Loaded on Dec. 15, 2007

Filed under: Court Access, Photocopies, Disclosure of Records. Location: Kentucky.

Pro se Kentucky State prisoner Michael Friend appealed a court's dismissal of his action to compel the Kentucky State Reformatory Warden to provide him with a copy of his account ledger at no charge. The court affirmed dismissal because payment was statutorily required.

Friend allegedly requested the documents in 1982 …

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