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County pays ex-lawmaker thousands for jail work |
By washingtontimes.com- Emily Wagster Pettus |
Published: 11/26/2014 |
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A northeast Mississippi county is paying $114,000 a year to a private prison company owned by a former state lawmaker who used to represent the area but now lives more than 200 miles away. Alcorn County has two contracts totaling $9,500 a month with Irb Benjamin, who’s president and lobbyist for Mississippi Correctional Management Inc. Under one contract, for $5,000 a month, Benjamin’s company handles accreditation for the Alcorn County Regional Correctional Facility. Under another, for $4,500 a month, Benjamin is warden of the jail. He has told supervisors he’s leaving that job Monday so they can hire someone else after the recent escape of two inmates, one of whom had broken out of the jail for the second time since June. Read More. |
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