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State Auditor Demands Over $1.9 Million from Private Prison Operator
Management & Training Corporation failed to meet staffing obligations, putting staff and inmates at risk
JACKSON, Miss. – Today State Auditor Shad White announced that Special Agents from his office have served Management & Training Corporation (MTC) with a civil demand totaling nearly $2 million after the company failed to follow the terms of its contract to operate the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) facility in Marshall County. The total demand amount—$1,991,774.10—includes interest and investigative costs.
As part of its contract to operate the MDOC prison in Marshall County, MTC developed minimum mandatory staffing levels to ensure the safety of inmates and prison staff. The Auditor’s investigation revealed MTC failed to appropriately notify and credit MDOC when its staffing levels at the Marshall County facility fell below the minimum amount required by the contract. The Auditor’s demand accounts for nearly 12,000 unfilled mandatory shifts at the Marshall County facility from 2017 to 2020.
“This is one of the larger demands we’ve issued in my time in office. Our investigators have proven we will take on the biggest cases down to the smallest to protect taxpayer dollars,” said Auditor White. “We look forward to a swift recovery of these funds.”
If MTC does not make payment on the demand within 30 days, the case will be transmitted to the Mississippi Attorney General’s Office for litigation.
Information from MTC website
MTC has been making a social impact in people’s lives since 1981.
How We Help People:
- Providing effective rehabilitative programs and services to offenders in the U.S., United Kingdom, and Australia to make their time in prison more productive and to reduce re-offending
- Partnering with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to provide individuals in their care with a comfortable and attentive environment.
- Caring for the medical, dental and mental health needs of inmates and detainees
- Educating and training young Americans so they have the technical and life skills they need to find and keep good jobs
- Providing workforce training to citizens of other countries so they can take care of themselves and their families
Suspected fraud can be reported to the Auditor’s office online at any time by clicking the red button at www.osa.ms.gov or via telephone during normal business hours at 1-(800)-321-1275.
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I hope that they put these people in the prison system that they stole from and they have to live in the conditions that our families are having to live in.out official show the world what kind of people we have running our state . criminal ones I’m ashamed to say I’m from mississippi.its all about what they can Steele put in there pockets money and what u have make u who you are but that’s not how it is sapo’s to be