Inmates are truely running the asylum in DC – stimulus money given out to inmates!

Federal economic stimulus cash was handed out to cons behind bars in Bay State prisons after a bureaucratic snafu resulted in $250 checks being sent to some inmates according to the Boston Herald:

“Taxpayers already believe the inmates are running the asylum in Washington,” U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) said in a statement. “Now it appears they are being compensated for their efforts.”

Not only did the feds send the cash to incarcerated cons, but they failed to respond to state officials who sounded the alarm about the inmate windfall – now the subject of a national probe.

The state Department of Correction initially withheld stimulus checks mailed to 23 inmates because prison officials believed the convicts were not entitled to the cash, said DOC spokeswoman Diane Wiffin.

The DOC said it released the funds after the federal government ignored several requests for guidance.

“In the absence of a formal directive, DOC determined that it did not have grounds to continue to withhold the checks from the recipients,” Wiffin said in an e-mail.

The Herald learned yesterday the U.S. Social Security Administration is asking at least 14 of the Bay State prisoners to return the cash. Inmates are generally not allowed to receive Social Security benefits while incarcerated.

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August 25, 2009 · Filed Under General Politics

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2 Responses to “Inmates are truely running the asylum in DC – stimulus money given out to inmates!”

Mattress Answer Man on August 25th, 2009 9:46 am

mmm I know i’m getting old but that means ????? Oh yeah another Bush mistake all that was rebate was LAST YEAR I know you sent out that article to knock Democrats and liberals. Unfortunately the DOC is part of the executive branch and it did its job just as good as the other oversight depts under bush you know like the SEC and those food and drug departments that blamed the other guy. Or maybe It was Cheney who neither belonged to the Senate or the Executive Branch
Maybe they sent it out to contractors like they did the war.
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