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Construction Audit Criticizes Oregon DOC
Loaded on Dec. 15, 1999
published in Prison Legal News
December, 1999, page 18
A report by Oregon state auditors released March 18, 1999, cited over $4 million in questionable expenses paid to contractors during a 2,348 bed expansion at the Snake River Corr. Institution in Ontario.The secretary of state's Audit Division recommended that the Dept. of Corrections recover $465,000 paid to Hoffman ...
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