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Judge Dennis Vaughn is killed with a screwdriver. While in New York City for a fundraiser for a governor's re-election, Vaughn had sex with one of the governor's staffers; her alibi depends on a friend, Andrea Schuster. Fingerprints on the screwdriver belong to Nikki Moreno, who escaped from a correctional facility days earlier. At the for-profit prison, run by Reform Enterprises (RE), Deputy Warden Trey McCann says that Moreno was a troublemaker. Later, McCann is murdered. Jeff Harper, a prisoner rights lawyer, says that Moreno had nothing against Vaughn, but hated McCann, and had no reason to escape or commit murder as he was close to getting her sentence reduced. He says that Moreno was forced into an unpleasant work detail recycling computers, but her prison record shows that she had asked for the detail. Moreno's body appears in a recycling bin. McCann had previously worked for another prison management company. Their executive, Perry Franklin, reveals that McCann was fired for corruption. Andrea Schuster was the re-election campaign manager. The murders were intended to cause the governor to award the new prison contract to Franklin's firm. Meanwhile, Bell discovers that his girlfriend secretly works for Internal Affairs.
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