Alabama Sheriffs Filled Their Wallets by Starving Prisoners -- The Daily Beast

Alabama law lets sheriffs keep whatever doesn't get spent on food from their jail food funds. Now 49 of those sheriffs are refusing to disclose how much of that money made it to detainees' plates, and how much landed in their own pockets. Since July, two civil-rights groups have been asking Alabama sheriffs for their bookkeeping on jailhouse meal funds. ....
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