• Th4tGuyII@fedia.io
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    1 month ago

    When Entrekin’s predecessor died while still in office, all the money in the food provision account went to his estate — as state law dictated, a county official told NPR. Entrekin had to borrow $150,000 to keep the inmates fed. He was paying down that debt for years"

    I’d feel bad for Entrekin going into debt over this, if it weren’t for the fact he went into debt exactly because of someone else abusing…

    “Alabama Law is clear regarding my personal financial responsibilities of feeding inmates. Until the legislature acts otherwise, the Sheriff must follow the current law.”

    … Ahem, Sorry, “lawfully abiding by” the exact same laws that Entrekin is making bank from too. How else does someone with a salary of $93,000 afford a $1.7 million property??

    Oh and…

    Lawyer Aaron Littman, at the Southern Center for Human Rights, said in a January statement that the practice of pocketing leftover funds was a “dubious interpretation” of the law that “raises grave ethical concerns, invites public corruption, and creates a perverse incentive to spend as little as possible on feeding people who are in jail.” He argues the sheriffs are supposed to manage the funds, not personally profit from them.

    Damn right. Nobody should be able to profiteer like these Sheriffs do from what is meant to feed inmates. They may be prisoners, but they still deserve to be fed like people.