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| Snyder ends Aramark prison food contract |
| By detroitnews.com- Chad Livengood & Gary Heinlein |
| Published: 07/14/2015 |
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Lansing — Gov. Rick Snyder’s administration on Monday ended a troubled $145 million prison food service contract with Aramark Correctional Services and signed a new agreement with Trinity Services Group. Philadelphia-based Aramark’s contract to serve food to Michigan’s 45,000 inmates has been riddled with problems. They ranged from maggots found in kitchen areas to rodent-nibbled cake and incidents of workers engaging in sex acts with prisoners, smuggling drugs to inmates and, in one case, allegedly conspiring in a murder-for-hire plot. Snyder administration officials said the state and Aramark mutually agreed to end the three-year contract after both sides hit an impasse over changes Aramark wanted for meals and billing. “Both the state and Aramark felt we couldn’t bridge the gap and determined it was best we both go our separate ways,” said Caleb Buhs, spokesman for the state Department of Technology, Management and Budget. To ensure “uninterrupted food service delivery,” Trinity will begin a 60-day transition into operating kitchens in the state’s 33 correctional facilities and be fully in control by Sept. 9, DTMB chief deputy director Brom Stibitz said in a statement. Read More. |
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