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South Carolina Prison Officials Cheat Charity, Attempt Coverup
Loaded on March 15, 2005
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2005, page 10
South Carolina Prison Officials Cheat Charity,
Filed under:
Misconduct/Corruption,
DOC/BOP misconduct,
Prison Industries,
Prison Labor.
Location:
South Carolina.
Attempt Coverup
by Michael Rigby
Officials at South Carolina's Lieber Correctional Institution (LCI) were supposed to be supplying free prison labor to a charity that builds portable housing for the elderly. Instead, they were stealing building materials and trying to extort money from the ...
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