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2. Payment of restitution or fines from other sources. A
prisoner, other than one addressed by subsection 1, who is able to
generate receives money, from whatever any source, shall pay 25% of
that money to any victim or the court if the court has ordered that
restitution or a fine be paid. The chief administrative officer of
the correctional facility in which the prisoner is incarcerated
shall collect and disburse to the victim or victims that portion of
the prisoner's money ordered as restitution. The chief
administrative officer of the correctional facility where the
prisoner is incarcerated shall also collect and disburse to the
court that portion of the prisoner's money ordered as fines after
the restitution is paid in full. If the victim or victims ordered
by the court to receive restitution can not be located, the
correctional facility shall inform the court that ordered
restitution. The court shall determine the distribution of these
funds. Money received by the prisoner and directly deposited into
a telephone call account established by the Department of
Corrections for the sole purpose of paying for use of the
department's client telephone system is not subject to this
subsection, except that 25% of any money received by the prisoner
and transferred from the telephone call account to the department's
general client account at the time of the prisoner's discharge or
transfer to supervised community confinement must be collected and
disbursed as provided in this subsection.

 
Sec. 3. 34-A MRSA §3032, sub-§5-A, ķA, as amended by PL 1995, c. 197,
§2, is further amended to read:

 
A. Restitution may be imposed for the purpose of replacing
or repairing property destroyed or damaged by the prisoner
or juvenile while the prisoner or juvenile is at the
institution. When restitution is imposed at a facility, a
prisoner or a juvenile who is subject to that restitution
and who is able to generate receives money from whatever any
source shall pay 25% of that money to the facility where the
damage occurred. The facility shall collect that money and
apply it to defray the cost of replacement or repair of the
items destroyed or damaged. Money received by the prisoner
or juvenile and directly deposited into a telephone call
account established by the department for the sole purpose
of paying for use of the__department's client telephone
system is not subject to this paragraph, except that 25% of
any money received by the prisoner or juvenile and
transferred from the telephone call account to the
department's general client account at the time of the
prisoner's or juvenile's discharge or transfer to supervised
community confinement or community reintegration status must
be collected and disbursed as provided in this paragraph.


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