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Aramark to Pay $65,000 for Overbilling Pennsylvania Prison
Loaded on June 15, 2006
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2006, page 25
Filed under:
Private Prisons,
Food/Commissary (Private Prisons),
Contractor Misconduct.
Location:
Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania's Dauphin County Prison (DCP) will receive $65,000 from its food service vendor due to overbilling. The settlement comes on the heels of a several-month grand jury investigation started in 2004 to examine allegations of watered-down food and overcharging.
The agreement, which was reached in September 2005, concludes there was ...
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