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&lt;p&gt;I&#39;ll admit that my eyebrows went up when I received an email from a colleague this week with the headline &quot;McKinsey Back in Prison.&quot; First, a moment of self-doubt: was there a scandal I&#39;d missed? An appeal hearing related to the &lt;a href=&quot;/blog/consult-this-consulting-careers-news-and-views/mckinsey-embarrassed-over-galleon-focused-on-future/&quot;&gt;Galleon Group&lt;/a&gt; affair?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nope: everything is on the level.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As it turns out, the firm has been contracted to fulfill one of the more esoteric consulting assignments I&#39;ve heard about recently: fixing the problem with violence among inmates at New York&#39;s Riker&#39;s Island correctional facility.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;According to an article in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20160125/blogs04/160129948/de-blasio-quadruples-down-on-outsourcing-rikers-reform&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Crain&#39;s New York&lt;/a&gt;, the world&#39;s most prestigious firm has already been working on the issue since 2014, at the behest of the de Blasio administration. But having earned some $1.7 million for that contract, the Department of Corrections seems to have significantly upped McKinsey&#39;s mandate, signing off on a $7.5 million engagement.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I can&#39;t decide which is the more fascinating aspect of this one: getting a glimpse into the range of projects that McKinsey actually works on (the firm is notorious for guarding its clients&#39; identities), or wondering how they go about assembling a project team for it—it&#39;s hard to imagine Harvard offering prison violence 101 as an elective on the MBA class list.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;What other unusual consulting&#160; assignments have you had or heard of? Let us know in the comments below.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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