Months after one of the country’s largest private prison companies was accused of defrauding Texas by collecting millions of dollars for in-person therapy it didn’t provide to prisoners, a state investigation found there was no fraud because prison officials sanctioned the practice.
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Wouldn’t this still be fraud? It’s defrauding taxpayers, surely. Just because the prison said it was okay should not make the practice acceptable. Maybe that makes the prisons culpable instead of the firm offering services? Crazy.
Yea I’m confused… The private prison officials sanctioned themselves to defraud Texas?