Daniels v. Kaiser

HARGRAVE, Justice.

The issue before us is whether funds held for prisoner upon his release, pursuant to 57 O.S. § 549, may be withdrawn to pay for ex-wife’s expenses in bringing children for visitation under divorce decree. Section 549 provides for inmate wages, the power to collect those and to preserve those wages and for apportionment of inmate wages and establishing percentages available for inmate savings, for the inmate’s personal use, to the inmate’s lawful dependents, to the victims of the inmate's crime, to be used for payment of creditors and to the Department of Corrections for…