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California Demands $1.6 Million In Diverted Telephone Revenues From Private Prison Contractor
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2005
by John E Dannenberg
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2005, page 39
California Demands $1.6 Million In Diverted Telephone Revenues
Filed under:
Marantha Private Corrections,
Misconduct/Corruption,
Contractor Misconduct,
Telephone Rates.
Location:
California.
From Private Prison Contractor
by John E. Dannenberg
The California Department of Corrections (CDC) has charged private prison contractor Marantha Corrections LLC with "misappropriating" more than $1 million in telephone revenues at its 500 bed prison in Adelanto, California, and ordered CDC's ...
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