Montana Department of Corrections uses the services of private prisons, pre-release centers and treatment facilities. Apparently there is no accounting for monies spent on corrections between private facilities and the State Government. Let’s look at just one three quarter of a million dollar discrepancy. So where’s the money?
Kevin Olson, Administrator of Montana Probation and Parole, prepared a report for the 65th Montana Legislature, 2017. The report contains a spreadsheet for FY 2015 with information about CCCS Inc (Community Counseling & Corrections Services Inc), a non-profit private correctional facility in Butte MT. At the same time CCCS Inc (Butte) was preparing their non-profit form 990 for the Department of the Treasury Internal Revenue Service.
Page 32 of Kevin Olson’s report PRC STATISTICS – FY 2015 Residents at CCCS Inc (Butte) paid room and board in the amount of $787,268.00.
Page 9 of CCCS Inc Form 990 – FY 2015 Residents at CCCS Inc paid room and board in the amount of $1,507,711.00.
Kevin Olson’s report to the 65th Montana Legislature – FY 2015 2017 Rainbow Book Page 32- Paid by residents for Room and Board (Butte) 787,268.00. Put cursor on 2017 Rainbow Book to see report.
CCCS Inc Form 990 – FY 2015 2015-810413419-0c4a62ab-9 (1) Page 9- Paid by residents for Room and Board (Butte) 1,507,711.00. Put cursor on underlined numbers to see CCCS Inc Form 990.
Now I do not have a degree in accounting or an MBA but even I can see there is three quarter of a million dollars missing between what Kevin Olson is reporting and what CCCS Inc is reporting. So who has the money? Usually the one under-reporting has the money. Anyway that’s the way embezzlement usually works. I would find it preposterous to suggest that anyone in state government would be guilty of embezzlement but there sure seems to be a discrepancy somewhere. That’s a lot of money missing between a non-profit corporation and a state agency. Unfortunately these incarcerated people have no idea where their money goes. It just goes somewhere. Who has the money?