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Officials Netted in Kansas Jail Bribery
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2002
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2002, page 16
A private company, MgtGP Inc., was awarded a $1.5 Million contract in 1997, and a four-year renewal in January 1997 worth $615,000 for that year alone, to run Kansas's Reno County Jail Annex. In May 2001, Reno's Sheriff, Larry Leslie, pled innocent to 34 counts of bribery. Also pleading innocent …
Filed under:
Private Prisons,
Contractor Misconduct,
Jail Misconduct,
Criminal Prosecution.
Location:
Kansas.
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