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Aramark worker in Kinross charged with solicitation of assault

SAULT STE. MARIE, MI (AP)--   Authorities say a former food service worker at a prison in the Upper Peninsula tried to get an inmate to help orchestrate the assault of another inmate. 

Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette says 27-year-old former Aramark supervisor of Michael R. Young was charged Tuesday with one count of solicitation to commit assault with intent to cause great bodily harm, a felony punishable by up to five years in prison.

It's unclear if Young has a lawyer. He's jailed.

Schuette's office says Young was employed by Aramark Correctional Services at Kinross Correctional Facility in Chippewa County. In 2014, a Kinross inmate reported to the Michigan Department of Corrections that Young asked him to set up the assault at a different prison facility.

Michigan contracts with Philadelphia-based Aramark for prison food service