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Neither prisoners nor anyone else can be charged with breaking a law that did not exist at the time it was allegedly broken. For example, if you wear green suspenders on December 31 2016 and a law against wearing green suspenders is passed (or goes into effect) on January 1 2017, you have not broken the law and cannot be convicted of the crime of wearing green suspenders because when you did it it wasn't against the law. However, if you do it again on January 7 2017, then you can be arrested, tried, and convicted of one count of Green Suspenders, because it WAS against the law when you did it the second time.

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