Aramark Gets Out Of Prison

Aramark will no longer be the prison food vendor in Michigan after the state noted a host of issues, including meal shortages, maggots in the kitchen, drug smuggling and Aramark workers engaging in sex acts with prisoners.

Aramark and the state have mutually decided to part ways prior to the September expiration of Aramark’s three-year, $145 million contract, according to the Detroit Free-Press.

Close to 200 Aramark employees have been terminated and banned from prison property for a range of transgressions, according to the paper; the employees replaced 370 state employees.

Trinity Services Group, the second lowest bidder after Aramark, will reportedly have the next contract. The final straw came in May when Aramark asked for more money.

“Aramark came to us to discuss contract changes and we just weren’t comfortable,” Caleb Buhs, a spokesman for the Department of Technology, Management and Budget, told the Free-Press.

That’s when the parties decided to part ways. The story comes a few months after it was reported that Aramark CEO Eric Foss spent nearly $800,000 in 2014 for private plane flights, the largest sum among the country’s 100 top-paid executives according to Bloomberg News.

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