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Our whole system needs to be overhauled and fixed. There are many instances where there is a ton of waste when it comes to states/counties receiving money from the Federal gov't/taxpayers. I know that for state roads and county libraries they "have" to use "all" of the money in a certain amount of time whether or not the money is wasted. And boy do people know how to waste.
As for this Alabama Law that is completely out there. What incentive does a Sheriff have to do the right thing? Obviously this man is scum. He is not the first bad sheriff in Alabama and won't be the last. Read this book for more horrors in Alabama: https://www.amazon.com/Just-Mercy-St.../dp/081298496X
This is important because most inmates being housed at the county jail are not convicts. Rather, they are people who have been arrested and waiting for bail. Or, they cannot make bail because of its high amount. People in America are innocent until proven guilty and should be treated as such.
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Does keeping someone LOCKED UP, in a county jail, if they cannot afford to pay bail, sound like a description of someone being assumed innocent, and treated as such?
Does keeping someone LOCKED UP, in a county jail, if they cannot afford to pay bail, sound like a description of someone being assumed innocent, and treated as such?
That's how the system works. If your bail is $55,000 (like the landscaper's) and you don't have the money to post a bond you just sit in jail...so the poor sit in jail and get even poorer because they will frequently lose their job and apartment while in jail. But people with money, they call a bondsman put the bond on their credit card, call an Uber to pick them up and they are back home within hours
Only thing that would make this story better is if the Sherriff's name was Boss Hawg. Good governance would try to eliminate such obvious conflicts of interests. People should not want to live in an area where these things are not done. If enough people leave that state, maybe we can downgrade it to a territory again. Accountability of funds has never been their strong suit.
What's horrible about things like this is that it's such an obvious, dim-witted crime. The dude wrote checks to himself...and the mayor has no idea how to figure out the extent....really? You don't have a check register? It's perhaps the dumbest crime in history....ummm, will there be a paper trail on checks written to myself?
So if it is a county jail, someone who gets a DUI on Friday night, and is bailed out Saturday morning, what meal are they missing?
Yes, chalk me up as someone who isn't offended.
Also, that's what CEOs get bonused for, saving money. So it is a perk.
Big. Woo.
Not offended that tax payer money bought this sheriff an almost million dollar house.
Seems to me, if the money wasn't needed for meals, it should have been returned to the tax paying public and not used to enrich this particular sheriff's lifestyle.
If the good people of Alabama don't raise a stink over this, well, "sheep" comes clearly to mind.
I couldn't find anything about him paying taxes. But I found this interesting. The guy who told a reporter that the Sheriff had paid him for landscaping work with a check drawn from "Sheriff Todd Entrekin Food Provision Account." had his house raided and was arrested for drug trafficking for having 14 grams of marijuana in his home, he's still in jail in the Etowah jail on $55,000 bail, he had no previous arrest record. Alabama man arrested on drug charges, 4 days after publicly criticizing county sheriff | Fox News
I REALLY hope this reaches the legal system and this sheriff goes to prison.
Yes, this sherriff's crime is much worse than the guy in jail's crime.
That's why I say re the OP of this thread:
That is a horrible policy and needs to be changed.
Inmates are not always bad people, some are just people with problems and some are victims of bad laws.
The drug laws in this country are bad laws. Legalize them like other countries have done and watch the crime rates and problems diminish.
So inmates should be fed and cared for as human beings, not treated like animals so sheriffs can profit.
Now, rapists and child molesters and etc, that's a different story...
But drug crimes and other victimless crimes are committed by human beings who may have some psychological problems, but are not monsters.
Four pages in and it's easy to spot the usual suspects that couldn't even be bothered to read the article itself beyond the headline before forming their opinions.
We even have some posters that think what he did was illegal. (not saying we have to like it)
Nobody has even yet mentioned the 150k debt he got stuck with when his predecessor died?
That has got to be one of the most idiotic laws on the books. It is an invitation to be corrupt.
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