The Pennsylvania Superior Court vacated a Clarion County trial court’s decision ordering an inmate to pay nearly $90,000 in restitution to the jail, after determining the jail didn’t qualify as a victim.

In an April 11 opinion, Judge James Gardner Colins, writing for a three-judge panel, determined the Clarion County Jail did not quality as a government agency entitled to restitution from defendant Jonathan Charles Laur, who pleaded guilty to simple assault on another inmate, and therefore, vacated the trial court’s ruling ordering Laur to pay the jail $87,600.50 in restitution.

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