Wow an Alabama sheriff doing some nefarious shit? Never heard of that before.
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Judging from his photo, doesnât look like the guy misses too many mealsâŚ
Seems like such a law is a huge conflict, and big incentive to spend as little as possible on food for prisoners; one suspects if they could, they wouldnât feed them at all.
Embarrassing that we have states that are little more than 3rd world outposts of ignorance and corruption; the only puzzle to me is why the people who live there keep voting for these kinds of conditions to continue.
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They ought to take these people and throw them in the pokey in exactly the same conditions as the other inmates.
Just in the same way, they ought to have given Joe Arpaio a pair of pink underwear and let him rot in the same hole he made for other people. Every inmate in all of these counties who were exposed to these conditions should now have their cases reviewed, and all of them need to be re-sentenced. And Oh, by the way, the bill for the administrative costs of all of that should be paid by all these people who have such nice houses, which they can now mortgage, to help pay the costs of doing so many people wrong.
I most certainly hope that the tax man pays them a nice visit as well.
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Great article but the the press release says Southern Center for Human Rights, not Southern Coalition for Human Rights. I was an intern at the former and Google doesnât come up with the latter. I think you may be combining SCHR and the Southern Coalition for Social Justice. The SCHR does amazing work and I recommend donating to them. They fight for better prison conditions and against the death penalty.
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Itâs Thousand Island salad dressing without the sweet pickles and parsley.
I would be very surprised if it were legal.
Who orders the prison food? Who oversees the quantity and quality of the food preparation? If the sheriff is in any way involved in that, then itâs obvious that heâs exercising his authority in order to enrich himself. If he wants to serve slops to the prisoners, thatâs one thing. But if he influences procurement and provisioning and feeding in the knowledge that this will create a surplus for his private use, then heâs in big trouble. Even in Alabama.
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Turn his beach house into multi-family affordable housing.
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Who needs to privatize prisons when public officials can profit like this.
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What a ridiculous law, even if it is not abused. Use the excess money for other purposes at the prison, or give it back to the town.
And the âfake newsâ defense is becoming the âI am guiltyâ defense pal.
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âThe degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.â
Fyodor Dostoevsky, from The House of the Dead
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How is the repeal of this law not a focal point of the GOP? Where is the tea party? This is so swamplike, and a waste of government funds! This should be a GOP bread and butter issue. And itâs a red state, so itâs not like the heroic GOP would have to struggle with swampist liberalist socialist marxist democratist Democrats in order to overturn the law.
Itâs almost like they donât care about the things they say they care aboutâŚ
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I would hope youâre right but the article gives the impression that it is legal and a widespread practice in Alabama.
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that face, always that bloated ruddy face
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According to this recent New Yorker piece, thereâs a widespread perception among a number of county sheriffs in several states that they are the supreme law of their communities, with veto power over federal laws and absolute power over the citizens they âprotect,â including the power to raise and command armed bands of citizens under the ancient doctrine of posse comitatus to enforce their individual personal notions of the law. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/30/the-renegade-sheriffs
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And WHY canât we hang these people?
That sounds like grounds for a Class Action Civil Suit to me. Seems like former inmates in his Jail ought to be able to force him to sell that Beach House with his ill-gotten gains.
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This must be the Anglo-American heritage that Jeff Sessions speaks of.
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Doesnât seem like itâs ever been tested in court. Itâs one thing to pocket $50 here and there because it solves the problem of what do with the loose change. Itâs another thing to set up a system that involves actively inflating the sum you pocket. The relevant law (which I havenât seen) would have to expressly authorize that, which Iâm assuming it doesnât. âWidespread practiceâ does not have legislative effect, thankfully.
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Slowly but surely this will spread and itâs occurrence will simply become part of the status quo.
Law enforcement long ago became self aware. Their primary concern is to protect and serveâŚthemselves. Fill up the cots cuz filled cots mean money. Not just the South.
Neither part will raise much of a stink.
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Demonic Trumptards are everywhere. No, weâre not #1 with a country full of villains like this inhuman criminal.
Another phony Christian, no doubt.