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We're always tracking government waste for you. We team up with The Washington Guardian to spotlight ways Washington may be wasting your money. We call it the Golden Hammer Award, an award for waste or overspending of your tax dollars.
This story may have some taxpayers fuming! The federal government has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on what was supposed to be a state of the art wireless communications network. The integrated wireless network was to create a seamless communications network for over 80,000 federal, state and local officials. The ambitious project was mapped out 14 years ago with what's now obsolete technology. Phillip Swarts with The Washington Guardian says an internal audit finds that $356 million was spent.
"They recommend it might be a good idea to stop the project," says Swarts. "Funding for the next fiscal year has been withheld."
For more information, go to Fox17.com and click on THE GUARDIAN under HOT TOPICS for more.
This story may have some taxpayers fuming! The federal government has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on what was supposed to be a state of the art wireless communications network. The integrated wireless network was to create a seamless communications network for over 80,000 federal, state and local officials. The ambitious project was mapped out 14 years ago with what's now obsolete technology. Phillip Swarts with The Washington Guardian says an internal audit finds that $356 million was spent.
"They recommend it might be a good idea to stop the project," says Swarts. "Funding for the next fiscal year has been withheld."
For more information, go to Fox17.com and click on THE GUARDIAN under HOT TOPICS for more.
Saturday, August 11 2012, 12:26 AM CDT
Tennessee News
Miss. chooses new firm to run Woodville prison
May 18, 2013 20:50 GMT
WOODVILLE, Miss. (AP) -- Mississippi officials have picked a new company to run the Wilkinson County Correctional Facility.
Utah-based Management and Training Corp. announced Friday that the Mississippi Department of Corrections has chosen it to run the 1,000-bed prison starting July 1, the Natchez Democrat reports (http://bit.ly/10MvOGv).
Corrections Corporation of America, based in Nashville, Tenn., had run the prison since 1998. MTC says it will keep "the vast majority" of employees.
MTC will get a five-year contract to run the prison with two one-year options. Last year, officials chose MTC to take over East Mississippi Correctional Facility, the Walnut Grove Correctional Facility and the Marshall County Correctional Facility from the GEO Group. MTC won 10-year contracts for each.
CCA still runs the Tallahatchie County Correctional Facility and the Adams County Correctional Center in Mississippi.
Information from: The Natchez Democrat, http://www.natchezdemocrat.com/
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