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These are curious, too ..

"Currently, the Corrections Department has 11 percent fewer beds under contract with Community
Education than it did when Mr. Christie succeeded Gov. Jon S. Corzine, a Democrat. But the
company’s revenue from the department has grown by 22 percent in that period, records show."

not sure how that works since they are supposed to be paid by the bed .. couldn't be inflation ..

"Last year, the company saw a new opportunity: a $130 million contract to house Essex County inmates
and detained immigrants. It was the only bidder, proposing to use its 1,200-bed Delaney Hall in Newark.

Advocates for immigrants, who criticized conditions at Delaney Hall, charged that the process was unfair. They said the contract was written to ensure that only Community Education could qualify. Federal immigration authorities later acknowledged that they had been told by the county that the contract would go to Community Education.

And it did."

Then there is the job in Christie's office for the then boyfriend/fiancee of the
daughter of Clancy, the founder and chief executive of Community Education ..

also state law says only non-profits could get money for half-way houses, but

"In the 1990s, Mr. Clancy worked out an unusual arrangement. Under state law, only nonprofit agencies can receive contracts for halfway houses. But regulators allowed Community Education to obtain contracts through a nonprofit called Education and Health Centers of America, state records show.

That arrangement remains. The primary purpose of the nonprofit has been to pay Community Education hundreds of millions of dollars that the nonprofit has received in recent years from state and county agencies, disclosure records show. The nonprofit has only 10 employees, and gave Mr. Clancy a $351,346 salary in its 2011 fiscal year, according to the records. Community Education itself, which is privately held, does not disclose how much it separately pays Mr. Clancy."

that arrangement was not under Christie's watch of course.