PENAL INSTITUTIONS Jails: Allow Jails to Recover Medical Costs from Inmates' Insurance Carriers, Provide for Deductions from Inmate Accounts to Defray Certain Costs

Authors

Carla M. Dudeck

Document Type

Peach Sheet

Abstract

HB 1170 allows the officer in charge of a detention facility to recover medical costs from inmates'; insurance carriers. HB 1769 provides that certain medical and other costs may be deducted from an inmate's jail account, and that repayment of the other costs may later be made a condition of probation.

Recommended Citation

Carla M. Dudeck, PENAL INSTITUTIONS Jails: Allow Jails to Recover Medical Costs from Inmates' Insurance Carriers, Provide for Deductions from Inmate Accounts to Defray Certain Costs, 9 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. (1992).
Available at: https://readingroom.law.gsu.edu/gsulr/vol9/iss1/4