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UNICOR Fraudsters Plead Guilty, Sentenced
Loaded on May 15, 2012
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2012, page 40
A former federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) employee and a former contractor were indicted and have pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud UNICOR, the prison industries arm of the BOP.
Filed under:
Contractor Misconduct,
DOC/BOP misconduct,
Prison Industries,
Crime/Demographics,
Criminal Prosecution.
Location:
Florida.
The indictment, handed down by a grand jury in the Northern District of Florida, alleged that James Bailey, formerly employed ...
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