What galls me about this, even more than fat sheriffs getting fatter by starving people, is the inference that since they’re following the law it’s all totally okay. I have an ideological problem not just with that statement, but the sentiment behind it.
The part of the article saying they get $2/day to feed prisoners, yet the Sheriff “guarantees they are properly fed” and somehow skims $750,000 out of it
Yes! The worst was this quote by Entrekin, hiding behind the law acting as if that’s all that matters:
“It’s the law. I haven’t done anything wrong,” Entrekin said at the time. “If it’s wrong, somebody needs to change the law. I have asked [state legislators] to change the law and they have not changed it.”
What galls me about this, even more than fat sheriffs getting fatter by starving people, is the inference that since they’re following the law it’s all totally okay. I have an ideological problem not just with that statement, but the sentiment behind it.
The part of the article saying they get $2/day to feed prisoners, yet the Sheriff “guarantees they are properly fed” and somehow skims $750,000 out of it
The law takes cops’ word as gospel, unfortunately.
Yes! The worst was this quote by Entrekin, hiding behind the law acting as if that’s all that matters:
I’m with you on this one, just yesterday on a different post I said as much: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/25358559/14482392