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Alabama sheriffs feed inmates on $1.75 a day

Limestone County Sheriff Mike Blakely is shown in the jail kitchen as he discusses feeding prisoners on Wednesday, April 9, 2008, in Athens, Ala. Back in the day of chain gangs, Alabama passed a law that gave sheriffs $1.75 a day to feed each prisoner in their jails, and the sheriffs got to pocket anything that was left over. More than 80 years later, most Alabama counties still operate under this system, with the same $1.75-a-day allowance, and some sheriffs are actually making money on top of their salaries. But exactly how much is something of a mystery because state auditors do not have access to sheriffs' private accounts. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)

AP Photo: Limestone County Sheriff Mike Blakely is shown in the jail kitchen as he discusses feeding...

By JAY REEVES, Associated Press Writer Sat May 17, 12:58 AM ET


- BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Back in the day of chain gangs, Alabama passed a law that gave sheriffs $1.75 a day to feed each prisoner in their jails, and the sheriffs got to pocket anything that was left over. More than 80 years later, most Alabama counties still operate under this system, with the same $1.75-a-day allowance, and some sheriffs are actually making money on top of their salaries.

Is this a corrupt system or not? Or should the prisoners and the public not complain for in other parts of the world millions live day to day on less. Or, according to County Sheriff Shaver "These people eat better here than they eat on the street, and they eat three times a day," offer a better reason to justify this aged old system.


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