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2012 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 24 - Corrections, Jails, Probations, Paroles and Pardons
Chapter 3 - STATE PRISON SYSTEM
Section 24-3-920 - Rewards for capture of escaped inmates.
SC Code § 24-3-920 (2012) What's This?
The Director of the Department of Corrections may award up to two thousand dollars for information leading to the capture of each escaped inmate. Funds to support such awards shall be generated from monies or things of value used as money found in the unlawful possession of a prisoner and confiscated as contraband by the Department of Corrections.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 55-358; 1952 Code Section 55-358; 1942 Code Section 1981; 1932 Code Section 1979; Cr. C. '22 Section 963; Cr. C. '12 Section 976; Cr. C. '02 Section 689; G. S. 2734; R. S. 570; 1881 (17) 952; 1960 (51) 1917; 1979 Act No. 132,Section 3; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 429; 2008 Act No. 353, Section 2, Pt 14B, eff July 1, 2009; 2010 Act No. 237, Section 34, eff June 11, 2010.
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