January 24, 2019

Mississippi recovered $26.6 million in settlements with private prison and correctional services contractors including for-profit correctional facilities operators Management and Training Corporation ($5.2 million) and Cornell Companies, Inc., now part of GEO Group ($4.6 million), correctional healthcare provider Wexford Health Sources, Inc. ($4 million); commissary management company Keefe Commissary Network, LLC ($3.1 million), and construction company C. N. W. Construction Company ($3.1 million).  The state’s lawsuits against the companies alleged that they used “consultants” as conduits to pay bribes and kickbacks to a commissioner of the Mississippi Department of Corrections, Christopher Epps.  MS

Tagged in: Bribery and Bid-Rigging, Correctional Services Fraud, Government Procurement Fraud,