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| Prisoners' Taxes Being Watched Closely |
| By columbian.com |
| Published: 03/14/2011 |
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It appears that many criminals confined in prisons across the U.S. don’t appreciate all that taxpayers and corrections officers are doing to house, feed and rehabilitate them — and that they have too much idle time on their hands. Large numbers of inmates, including several at Larch Corrections Center in Clark County, have filed fraudulent tax returns and reaped money they weren’t entitled to, according to a Feb. 16 story by Kevin McCoy in USA Today. The inmates’ tax returns, citing “phantom jobs,” tricked the IRS into issuing $39.1 million in undeserved tax refunds to inmates nationwide in 2009, the story said. The newspaper also found that such crimes have increased dramatically in the past several years. The newspaper examined data from the IRS, the Treasury Inspector General and the Pew Center on the States for the report. Read More. |
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