[Beautiful_Gracious_Skies]

Sheriff E. had better install tight security at his new beach house.

[DoughtyOne]

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[Paladin2]

So much for The Rule of Law proponents.

[Pontiac]

“Clearly this is a practice which is problematic because it creates an incentive for sheriffs to spend as little as possible on feeding folks.”

Not that the incentive is bad. Prisoners should not be getting fat on the taxpayers’ expense. But the excess funds should not pocketed by the sheriff.

Those funds should be put to a useful purpose that benefits the public at large or the tax burden on the public should be reduced.

I prefer the latter.

[shotgun]

So he did the math and figured he could feed them PB&J sandwiches instead of hot dogs and save the county $750,000, and he then rewarded himself for his frugalness of taxpayer funds...

My bet would be that this department is out of control based upon his actions. Once the line deputies see that command staff is getting away with this kind of behavior then they will quickly follow suit. If there is one thing I know about cops is that there are quite a few that have the attitude of entitlement. If someone is getting something they will do their best to make sure they get some too...

[Mr. K]

It may be ‘legal’ but you’re still a piece of crap.

[Mr. K]

It may be ‘legal’ but you’re still a piece of crap.

[Ancesthntr]

On top of being a greedy SOB, the sheriff is pretty stupid. He could have taken the same money and bought income-producing properties that would have produced sufficient income to pay for that same house...and he’d have kept the properties, which would appreciate and also have increased equity every single month as the mortgages were paid down.

Greedy and stupid...wow, what a combination.

[Carriage Hill]

"Prison loaf" is cheap eats for inmates...

[Blue House Sue]

This is the media’s payback for Sheriff Todd Entrekin’s endorsement of Judge Roy Moore.

[i_robot73]

The only group this is possibly ‘obscure’ to are the taxpayers. I’m sure EVERY govt yahoo knows of these ‘laws’ a/o the processes involved....like many of those on welfare whom know all ways to game the system.

[Tammy8]

For many years in this country the local sheriff in each community had access to many things like this. The old time sheriff could collect and keep taxes, or at least a good amount, and a lot of other things were used as income for the sheriff. I am not surprised the law was on the books, and would bet there are a lot more laws like this across the country.

That said, he knows things have changed...he knew it was technically legal for him to do this since the law was still there- but should have known people would take a dim view of it.

[vette6387]

According to this article from 2013, Entrekin is an Alabama GOP “rising star!”

https://algop.org/rising-republican-star-etowah-county-sheriff-todd-entrekin/

I guess he can take his place amongst the other GOP “Rising Stars” in Alabama like Jeff Sessions, Roy Moore, and the fat bastrd, whose name excapes me, that the crooked governor appointed to replace Sessions in the Senate initially.

Here every day we are critical of the RATs, with good reason, but the truth of the matter is that the GOPE is full of the same bucket of crap as is the RAT Party!

[DoodleDawg]

Are there any inmates he hasn’t starved to death?

[blueplum]

well, at least the inmates didn’t have to wear pink panties /s