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An Alabama Sheriff used $750,000 in excess inmate feeding funds to buy a beach house

Power corrupts, and humans are totally corruptible.
 
phattonez said:
$750,000 to feed inmates? How many prisoners do they have? And what do they eat?
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It is a building that houses 400 inmates and has been added on to house ICE prisoners. Also the 750,000 was from three years of what the surplus was on the feeding bill of the jail.

Hell, even if you count 3 dollars per inmate per day, that is a bill of 438,000 dollars a year. Now if you bring that down to 1 dollars and 50 a day, you can save close to what this man embezzled.
 
This guy is gonna be in some trouble. He combined all money for food (fed and state) and he kept more than his entire state allotment. Which means he fed all his inmates using fed money and kept some of it too. Might be rough for this guy.
 
AustralianuS said:
This guy is gonna be in some trouble. He combined all money for food (fed and state) and he kept more than his entire state allotment. Which means he fed all his inmates using fed money and kept some of it too. Might be rough for this guy.
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Imagine what he'll be eating when an inmate is dishing it up for him.
 
According to CBS, this was apparently a legal use of funds, and as outrageous as it appears, the Sheriff did report these excess holdovers. Apparently he followed the rules. I am just amazed that this county legalized what is a kickback of taxpayer money to the Sheriff's Department instead of making a Sheriff turn the funds back over to the county. It isn't as though Alabama is known for rolling in cash.
 
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