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Investigators Probe Ohio Paroles-For-Sale Scam

Loaded on May 15, 2000 published in Prison Legal News May, 2000, page 15
Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Parole Board Misconduct, Parole. Location: Ohio.
After receiving a tip from an unidentified informant in June of 1997, Ohio prison officials uncovered evidence of a parole-for-pay scam. While screening prisoner mail, officials read a letter from Grafton Correctional Institution prisoner Bubba Shumate addressed to Lynn Moore, a former Grafton prisoner who was paroled in 1997 and ...

 

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