Audit blasts 'widespread misspending' at Mississippi prisons
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December 18, 2020 10:03 AM
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi's prison system used tax dollars to buy massage chairs, Himalayan salt lamps and a bedroom set and illegally paid some employees for extra work time they had accumulated, the state's auditor said in a scathing report that found widespread misspending at the agency while it struggled to fill jobs for guards and was plagued by violence.
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