35. Property-prisoner personal.

U.S. Appeals Court DISPOSITION OF FUNDS

Atchison v. Collins, 288 F.3d 177 (5th Cir. 2002). An inmate filed a motion asking the federal court to compel a correction department to deduct no more than 20% of his monthly income to pay for filing fees incurred as the result of unsuccessful actions in federal court. The district court denied the motion and the appeals court affirmed. The department had been deducting 60 percent to pay for three filling fees on which the inmate owed money; the appeals court held that the twenty-percent-of-income payments provided for...