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| Use of old food law gets Sheriff jail |
| By The New York Times |
| Published: 01/09/2009 |
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ALABAMA - The prisoners in the Morgan County jail here were always hungry. The sheriff, meanwhile, was getting a little richer. Alabama law allowed it: the chief lawman could go light on prisoners’ meals and pocket the leftover change. Sheriff Greg Bartlett was jailed after a judge found that he was not feeding his inmates enough. The Morgan County jail houses about 300 inmates. And that is just what the sheriff, Greg Bartlett, did, to the tune of $212,000 over the last three years, despite a state food allowance of only $1.75 per prisoner per day. In the view of a federal judge, who heard testimony from the hungry inmates, the sheriff was in “blatant” violation of past agreements that his prisoners be properly cared for. “There was undisputed evidence that most of the inmates had lost significant weight,” the judge, U. W. Clemon of Federal District Court in Birmingham, said Thursday in an interview. “I could not ignore them.” Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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