Eastern Cherokees could garnish per caps for inmate expenses

Wednesday, June 19, 2013  

The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina might garnish the casino per capita payments of tribal jail inmates.

The inmates could be forced to pay a portion of their costs for being jailed. A draft resolution is being developed.

“It was something we had talked about the past,” council member Perry Shell told The Smoky Mountain News. “I think it’s a good idea.”

Tribal members receive about $8,000 a year in gaming per capita payments.

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