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	Cash for Convicts

merrie

8-25-2009 6:47 PM

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economic stimulus checks, only in massachusetts, state prison inmates

merrie says:

Sounds like an “Only in Massachusetts” kind of thing, but even the hacks in Taxachusetts couldn’t believe it when the feds mailed economic stimulus checks to state prison inmates. Boston Herald

Read it and weep. Or laugh. By the way, federal checks could be stimulating the cons at a prison near you. Boston Herald again: Feds’ payout probe goes nationwide.

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