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Denise Bolanos

A two inmate cell

Nevada officials suspend policy of diverting 80 percent of funds sent to inmates to pay victim restitution

If Bolaños wanted to get the same amount of money to her husband now, she would need to send $600 to his account each month — something she can’t afford without taking on another part-time job. She’s upset she can’t help supplement what she described as insufficient food in the prison or provide small indulgences, like money to buy an ice cream at the commissary, to show her husband she cares.

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