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CA Prisoners Win Appeal in Failure-To-Pay Interest Case

Loaded on Aug. 5, 2016

Filed under: Money/Property, Prisoner Property, Interest, Trust Accounts. Location: California.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has remanded a case filed by several California state prisoners challenging a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) practice of refusing to credit the prisoners with interest earned on their accounts.

Paul Schneider and nine other CDCR prisoners …

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