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‘I need that money’: Alabama siphoning inmates’ stimulus funds to pay fines, fees, restitution AL.com 1 hr ago Connor Sheets, al.com © Mike Cason Incarcerated men rest on their bunks in Alabama s Staton Correctional Facility in Elmore County on Sept. 4, 2019. Willie Montgomery was looking forward to receiving his third stimulus check from the federal government. Serving a life sentence at Ventress Correctional Facility, he planned to use the $1,400 payment to pay for sorely needed hygiene products and food from the commissary. But when he finally received the funds earlier this month, more than $300 had been withheld to cover outstanding court costs that he has been unable to pay because he’s been imprisoned for over four decades.

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