The total sum “leftover” after underfeeding and badly feeding was in the millions.
Keeping the Alabama “leftover” money was legal under state laws, for some crazy reason.
They also had a federal contract to keep ICE prisoners, and got federal money for that, which they did not treat separately from the Alabama money.
Another Republican (Jonathon Horton) unseated that swine Todd Entrekin in their primaries two to one.
Then in 2019 the food account was finally made into a public one by the state legislature, 25% of it could still be misappropriated to other law enforcement activity though. Then in 2020 the was a referendum in Etowah county to make that percentage 100%, but I can’t find out how it went in the end. The Gadsen Times are blocked for European readers.
This is an interesting followup piece of the publication that broke the original story:
https://www.al.com/news/2018/12/heres-how-federal-inmates-made-an-alabama-sheriff-15-million.html
Some noteworthy pieces of information imho:
Then in 2019 the food account was finally made into a public one by the state legislature, 25% of it could still be misappropriated to other law enforcement activity though. Then in 2020 the was a referendum in Etowah county to make that percentage 100%, but I can’t find out how it went in the end. The Gadsen Times are blocked for European readers.
https://www.al.com/news/2020/03/voters-in-2-alabama-counties-to-consider-jail-inmate-food-funds.html