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Former New York DOCS Food Director Pleads Guilty to Grand Larceny
Howard Dean, the state employee who ran New York’s prison food services for 17 years, was treated like a big cheese by private vendors. In return, according to investigators, he gave them the secret ingredient for the cheese sauce served at prisons throughout the state.
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- From the Editor, by Paul Wright
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- Florida DOC Program Targets Incarcerated Veterans
- PLN Settles Public Records Suit Against PHS in Vermont, Obtains Settlement Payout Information, by Alex Friedmann
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- Texas Slashes Prison Education Budget, by Matthew Clarke
- Misconduct at U.S. Army Lab Taints Hundreds of Military Prosecutions, by Derek Gilna
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