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Kentucky State Auditor Blasts Prison Industries After $377K in Undeposited Payments Found in Manager’s Desk
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2005
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2005, page 38
by Matthew T. Clarke
Filed under:
Misconduct/Corruption,
Contractor Misconduct,
Government Misconduct,
Prison Industries.
Location:
Kentucky.
It is hard to imagine the surprise of Kentucky Correctional Industries (KCI) employees when they discovered $377,751.86 in undeposited payments in a KCI manager’s desk in April, 2004. As a result of the discovery, Kentucky Department of Corrections (DOC) Commissioner John Rees asked the State Auditor …
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