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| Inmates complain of snack 'scandal' |
| By The Intelligencer |
| Published: 06/25/2008 |
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PENNSYLVANIA - We're paying $70 to fill up the car, trading down to beans from beef at the dinner table and choking on a tight credit market — the perfect storm for a rotten economy. But when it comes to suffering the wrath of soaring costs, inmates behind the guarded walls of Bucks County prison may be enduring more than most. Ryan Barrie and Ryan Kerwin have each filed a grievance citing a “price fixing/monopoly scandal” against the correctional facility and the Keefe Commissary Network, which supplies snack food for inmates. The complaint seeks reimbursement of $400,000 for the entire prison population. Barrie and Kerwin are in the process of filing a related federal class-action lawsuit. The suit, they claim, will be fully supported by anti-trust law. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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