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Ohio Prisons Make Almost $5 Million in Improper Food and Education Payments
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2002
by Roger Hummel
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2002, page 8
After receiving an anonymous tip about billing irregularities, the Ohio State Auditor conducted a special audit of the two state prisons: the Noble Correctional Institution (NCI) at Caldwell and the Belmont Correctional Institution (BCI) in St. Clairsville.
Filed under:
Private Prisons,
Food/Commissary (Private Prisons),
Contractor Misconduct,
Food,
Education.
Location:
Ohio.
Released in November, 2001, the auditor's report showed that NCI's private food service …
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