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There is absolutely no excuse for this. This was in Pennsylvania and we can only hope that it is a state issue and not a national issue.
John Baer: Cell earnings: Prison inmates collect unemployment
DID YOU KNOW that Philadelphia prison inmates collected unemployment benefits while sitting in their cells?
They did: 1,162 of them got an average of $344 a week for, on average, 18 weeks. That's more than $7 million.
And many of the 25,500 inmates in other county jails in Pennsylvania did the same.
We're talking cash for cons - tens of millions of tax dollars paid by employers and employees fraudulently scammed by incarcerated crooks.
John Baer: Cell earnings: Prison inmates collect unemployment
John Baer: Cell earnings: Prison inmates collect unemployment
DID YOU KNOW that Philadelphia prison inmates collected unemployment benefits while sitting in their cells?
They did: 1,162 of them got an average of $344 a week for, on average, 18 weeks. That's more than $7 million.
And many of the 25,500 inmates in other county jails in Pennsylvania did the same.
We're talking cash for cons - tens of millions of tax dollars paid by employers and employees fraudulently scammed by incarcerated crooks.
John Baer: Cell earnings: Prison inmates collect unemployment