September 13, 2011
Montana lawmakers seek audit of CCA private prison
Three state lawmakers said they will request a legislative audit of a contract between the Department of Corrections [1] [1](DOC) and the company that operates the private prison in Shelby following allegations which included inmates being held beyond their parole and a claim prisoners are given two rolls of toilet paper a week and told by guards to use their hands if they run out.
The three, members of the Legislature’s Law and Justice Interim Committee [2], said they would request the audit after hearing the claims made Friday regarding the DOC and the Corrections Corporation of America [3](CCA) by Helena businessman Rudy Stock, who said he has visited his son at the Crossroads Correctional Center [4]nearly 80 times since Feb. 1...
LINK - Montana.Watchdog.org
