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How low can you go? Alabama sheriffs may pocket leftover food money of $1.75 a day after feeding inmates at county jails.

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Alabama attorney general rules that Alabama sheriffs may pocket leftover food money of $1.75 a day after feeding inmates at county jails. Tuesday, March 25, 2008 KIM CHANDLER News staff writer MONTGOMERY - Alabama sheriffs may pocket leftover food money after feeding inmates at the county jails, the Alabama attorney general has ruled. The opinion issued March 17 offered guidance on the controversial practice of sheriff's keeping whatever is left over from the $1.75 a day per inmate the state pays sheriffs to provide food in the jails. The director of the Alabama Sheriffs Association praised the opinion and said it gives sheriffs incentive to wisely manage jail grocery costs. "The code is very explicit, the excess belongs to the sheriff," said Bobby Timmons, executive director of the Alabama Sheriffs Association...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 25, 2008 (boomark / email).