Letters to the Editor
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Why trust Aramark?
Sodhexo was the largest investor in Corrections Corporation of America before students nationwide embarrassed them into ending their majority position in the dangerous corporation. (The Not With Our Money, capaign.) However, Aramark, which has prison feeding contracts around the nation could not abandon the same sordid business.
In New Mexico, Aramark had a registered lobbyist who was the deputy director of a state prison in southern Illinois. Apparently the only thing that she brought to the "job" was her relationship with the married ex-GEO Group Warden, and now director of Corrections in NM, Joe Williams. She was his, er, traveling companion, according to public records and newspaper articles. She was also the registered lobbyist for Wexford Health Services, of Pittsburgh, PA, which provided abysmal medical care for New Mexican prisoners. Wexford just had it's contract cancelled.
Cell phone records showed that DOC Director Williams was on the phone to her for almost a hundred hours, loging hundreds of calls.
Will tripe specialist Aramark be next to get the bums' rush? Stay tuned.
(More info at www.privateci.org )