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Alabama sheriffs feed inmates on $1.75 a day
ap.google.com — 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, and some sheriffs are actually making money on top of their salaries.
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- TheCash, on 05/17/2008, -0/+4Sounds like a hell of an incentive to keep operating costs down to me.
- iceman0113, on 05/18/2008, -1/+1"Depression-style frugality and rely on such things as day-old bread, cut-rate vegetables and cheap inmate labor." Cheap inmate labor = slavery
- Wiwoz, on 05/18/2008, -1/+1They're in prison. The less that the government spends on keeping them comfortable, the less hard-earned money the law-abiding citizens have to shell out. Day-old bread sucks? Good. It's punishment.
- RoshanK, on 05/18/2008, -0/+1Reminds me of the Grade F meat from the simpsons. Seriously though, 1.75 a meal is hard to deal with in itself, 1.75 a day, there's no telling what's in that meat.
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