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KY: KY: Bill would cancel Aramark Contract Where as Many as 300 Prisoners Became Ill and Might Have Provoked "Riot"

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

"State corrections officials say the contract with Aramark saves $5 million each year and allowed them to give corrections officers a nearly 7 percent raise in 2008." Bill would cancel prison food contract By Valarie Honeycutt Spears Complaints about the quality and quantity of food that a private company provides to Kentucky state prisons has led a state lawmaker to file a bill that would cancel the $12 million annual contract. Northpoint Training Center, where there was a riot last month, is one of several state prisons where inmates and corrections officers have complained about the food provided by Philadelphia-based Aramark Correctional Services, said state Rep. Brent Yonts, D-Greenville. Yonts said he also is concerned that the illness of as many as 300 inmates at a Western Kentucky prison might have been caused by food...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on September 09, 2009 (boomark / email).