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Tennessee Prison Contracting Official Engaged to Contractor
Loaded on April 15, 2007
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2007, page 30
The Tennessee Department of Corrections (TDOC) is investigating whether a romance between a prison contract oversight official and a prison contractor involved any impropriety.
Filed under:
Food/Commissary (Private Prisons),
Misconduct/Corruption,
Contractor Misconduct,
DOC/BOP misconduct.
Location:
Tennessee.
TDOC purchasing director Nola Butler disclosed her romantic relationship with prison commissary contractor Martin Jennen, president of American Commissary Supply-US, to TDOC Assistant Commissioner Catherine Posey ...
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