Auditor: Prison company must pay $2 million for no-show workers

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Mississippi’s state auditor on Monday demanded a private prison operator pay nearly $2 million after the company improperly billed the state for thousands of prison guard shifts that were never actually worked.

by Joseph Neff and Alysia Santo, The Marshall Project, Mississippi Today November 15, 2022 Note: This article was published in partnership with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system. Sign up for their newsletters, and follow them on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

This article first appeared on Mississippi Today and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.

 

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