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How to eat for only $1.75/day - Alabama prison

seattletimes.nwsource.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, with the same $1.75-a-day allowance, and some sheriffs are actually making money...

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  • Asheis, on 05/17/2008, -0/+1Another reason to behave... though < $1.75 a day seems close to torture.
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