Prosecutors May File Charges Against Prison Bookkeeper
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
Prosecutors are contemplating charges
against a former state prison bookkeeper who state auditors allege
siphoned off more than $100,000 from inmates` personal
funds.
Details were disclosed today in a report to the Legislative
Joint Auditing Committee.
According to the audit, a former bookkeeper at the Benton Unit
wrote 172 inappropriate checks totaling $92,145 from the Inmate Personal Funds Account. Another $8,085 in cash withdrawals for work release inmates was
unaccounted for.
The employee has been fired. None of the money has been
recovered.
