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| Prison Company Under Scrutiny Once Again |
| By New York Times |
| Published: 02/03/2003 |
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A private prison company at the center of state inquiries into influence peddling in Albany has a checkered history in metropolitan New York, having been the subject of two federal investigations. Prosecutors in Manhattan and the lobbying commission in Albany are looking into whether the company, Correctional Services Corporation, violated any laws in its effort to continue receiving state contracts to run halfway houses for people recently released from prison. The corporation, a national company started by welfare hotel operators in New York City more than a decade ago, garnered more than $22 million in state contracts from 1992 to 2001, but has seen its business with the state fall to nothing in the last two years. One lawmaker, Assemblywoman Gloria Davis of the Bronx, has admitted in a Manhattan court to accepting free transportation from the company in the late 1990's in return for helping it keep getting state contracts. After Ms. Davis's admission on Jan. 7, Assemblyman Roger L. Green of Brooklyn told reporters that he, too, had accepted rides to and from Albany in one of the company's vans. The allegations of free transportation, however, are not all that state lobbying officials and other law enforcement agencies are now examining, several officials said. Another area of inquiry is whether the company also provided free cellphones to lawmakers, officials said. In addition, federal authorities say they have an open investigation into allegations the company's employees were forced to work on political campaigns of New York State and City lawmakers during the 1990's. Through a lawyer, the company's founder, James F. Slattery, denied any knowledge of favors done by his employees for Ms. Davis or other lawmakers. The lawyer, James Featherstonhaugh, said the company was starting an internal investigation to determine if a former vice president, Franklin Chris Jackson, had been improperly currying favor with lawmakers. |
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