Michigan Prison Food Worker Accused Of Soliciting Assault

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (WWJ/AP) - Authorities say a food service worker at a prison in Michigan's Upper Peninsula tried to get an inmate to help orchestrate the assault of another inmate.

Twenty-seven-year-old ex-Aramark Correctional Services supervisor Michael Young is charged with soliciting assault with intent to cause great bodily harm.
A judge in Sault Ste. Marie arraigned Young Wednesday, setting his bond at $10,000. He's due back in court June 1, with a June 10 probable-cause hearing.

Defense lawyer Charles Malette says his client is a "good man" and married father and says the inmate accusing him isn't credible.

Young worked at Kinross Correctional Facility in Chippewa County.
Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette says Young asked a Kinross inmate to set up the assault.

Philadelphia-based Aramark says it fired Young over the allegations.

This is not the first time Aramark has come under fire for it's dealings within Michigan prisons:

In October, a spokesman for the state Department of Corrections confirmed reports that prisoners at the Saginaw Correctional Facility were served food that had been thrown in the trash.

The meals in question were meatballs "or some sort of meat products," spokesperson Chris Gautz told the Saginaw News.

Apparently, an Aramark employee had thrown the food away before realizing more inmates still hadn't been served. The employee, who has since been fired, then retrieved the food "rinsed them off, reheated them in the oven and instructed the inmates to serve them."

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