How Prisons Are Blocking Incarcerated People’s Stimulus Checks
While some prisoners used contraband phones to file online, others asked family members or friends to file their tax forms online. Others asked for the checks to be mailed to a residential address rather than the prison. In Ohio, people who sent checks to residential addresses had received their checks already, while prisoners still had not, according to Crispino. She’d heard that the payments had arrived at facilities but were being withheld.