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Illinois Seizes Prisoner’s Life Insurance Inheritance

Loaded on Aug. 15, 2008

Filed under: Money/Property, Seizure of Prisoner Funds. Location: Illinois.

Leonce J. Ruckman, an Illinois state prisoner who had been incarcerated since 1988, received the benefits of his mother’s life insurance policy after she died. He used some of the proceeds to purchase a MetLife annuity with a cash value of $32,178.22. When state officials learned of the inheritance they ...

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