Improbable Private Prison Scam Plays Out in Hardin, Montana

Source: by Alex Friedmann, Prison Legal News, December 2009

..... The same day that the APPF contract was announced, PLN began preliminary background research into the company. Within a matter of hours it was learned that APPF had been incorporated in California in March 2009 and its website went up two months later; the firm's Washington, D.C. address was at a location that provides "virtual office" services, but APPF didn't have an account there; the company was not registered to do business in D.C. or Montana; and APPF was not listed in a database of federal contractors.