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Aramark: Prison Food Service with a Bad Aftertaste
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2006
by John Dannenberg
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2006, page 10
Filed under:
Private Prisons,
Food/Commissary (Private Prisons),
Contractor Misconduct,
Food,
Death Row.
Location:
United States of America.
by John E. Dannenberg
Aramark, Inc. is a Philadelphia-based $10 billion/yr. Fortune 500 company providing diverse institutional food services. Its Illinois-based subsidiary, Aramark Correctional Services, Inc., (ACSI), which bought out Wackenhut's Correctional Foodservice Management division in 2000, contracts with 450 prisons and jails in 40 states, serving over 300,000 prisoners. …
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