Nixon recovers incarceration costs

Attorney General Jay Nixon recovered the costs through the 1988 Missouri Incarceration Reimbursement Act. The act entitles the state to recover up to 90 percent of an inmate’s assets after any obligations to an inmate’s spouse or children are met.

The average cost of incarcerations in the Missouri Department of Corrections is about $14,000 per inmate each year.

A more notable recovery last year was $44,804 from two brothers, John and Warren Delmain, who received money from their father’s estate in Franklin County.

John Delmain was convicted of two counts of rape, two counts of sodomy, statutory rape, kidnapping, robbery, armed criminal action and unlawful possession of a concealed firearm. Warren Delmain was convicted of three counts of rape, two counts of sodomy, robbery, kidnapping and armed criminal action.