It would mean victims repaying victims
(AP) -- A fight is underway over whether female prisoners, who won a lawsuit for being sexually victimized behind bars in Michigan's corrections system, should have to pay some of the money to those victimized by the crimes that sent the women to prison in the first place. A 2009 settlement called for $100 million to be paid to up to 900 female inmates who underwent sexual assaults, groping, or harassment from prison guards over 16 years.
Some of those women also face restitution orders for their crimes.
The Michigan attorney general's office has been trying to learn what restitution orders are in effect for 15 women convicted of felonies in Oakland County.
Washtenaw County Circuit Judge Timothy Connors has blocked disclosures at the request of one woman's lawyer.
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Information from: Detroit Free Press, http://www.freep.com
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