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Memo Details McCrory’s Involvement With Prison Contracts

Governor's Office

A recently released memo from a deputy commissioner of corrections says that Governor Pat McCrory spoke twice with Secretary of Public Safety Frank Perry about expiring prison contracts.

The memo says McCrory expressed concern about canceling the contracts with one of his political donors and friends, Graeme Keith Sr. Later that year, the state renewed a $3 million prison maintenance contract with Keith’s company.

Host Frank Stasio talks with News & Observer investigative reporter Joe Neff.

Frank Stasio

Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.

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