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Lawmakers To Get Update On Prison Food Contractor Wednesday

A legislative committee is getting updates on complaints facing the private food vendor that won the contract to feed Ohio inmates. Records indicate employees with Philadelphia-based Aramark Correctional Services have repeatedly failed to provide food or run out of it since beginning work last September. Records also show several days when Aramark employees failed to show up, cases of unauthorized relationships between inmates and Aramark workers, and five reports since January of maggots in food or the preparation process.  The Correctional Institution Inspection Committee says it will hear an update from Ohio prisons director Gary Mohr Wednesday afternoon along with other witnesses.  Aramark has called the complaints part of an anti-privatization campaign by unions representing prison guards.

Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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