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Maine Prison Warden’s Purchase of State Property Voided
Loaded on March 15, 2012
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2012, page 34
Maine’s Attorney General has declared a real estate deal between the state and Maine State Prison Warden Patricia Barnhart and her partner, Sheehan Gallagher, void. The transaction involved three houses and about five acres of land near the prison.
Filed under:
Misconduct/Corruption,
Guard Misconduct,
DOC/BOP misconduct,
Government Misconduct.
Location:
Maine.
Barnhart was living in one of the homes at the time ...
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