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COs drop $1.5M contract
By The Home News Tribune
Published: 08/21/2006

TRENTON, NJ - A controversial $1.5 million-per-year taxpayer payout to a firm that allegedly prepared prison inmates for life after prison was dropped Friday amid allegations the program is under investigation.

"We are going to cancel the contract with Life Skills Academy," said Department of Corrections Commissioner George Hayman, noting, "The Governor's Office and the Department of Law and Public Safety are looking into this."

Taxpayers have paid the private company to teach prison inmates, though state auditors found no one at the Department of Corrections, or DOC, checked whether the classes were held...Read more.

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