217.365. Offenders not to carry money, exceptions, violations, treated as contraband. - Missouri Statutes

Offenders not to carry money, exceptions, violations, treated ascontraband.

217.365. No offender while confined in any correctional center of thedepartment, except those offenders so authorized by the chiefadministrative officer of a particular center, shall be permitted to haveon his person, in his cell, or in his immediate possession, any money orlegal tender of any description. Such money or legal tender shall beconsidered contraband under the rules and regulations of the department.Such contraband shall be confiscated and deposited in the inmate canteenfund and expended pursuant to section 217.195.

(L. 1982 H.B. 1196 § 69, A.L. 1989 H.B. 408, A.L. 1995 H.B. 424)