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Phone Graft in Florida
Loaded on June 15, 1996
published in Prison Legal News
June, 1996, page 13
Competing telephone companies submitted bids to provide "inmate phone services" to 35 Florida prisons. The contract was awarded to North American Intelecom (NAI) Inc. over rival MCI Telecommunications. MCI filed a protest based on the fact that they scored higher than NAI in the Department of Corrections' bid ranking system. ...
Filed under:
Misconduct/Corruption,
Contractor Misconduct,
DOC/BOP misconduct,
Telephone Rates.
Location:
Florida.
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