How Feeding Prisoners Rotten Food Got This Sheriff A Beach House
June 7, 2018
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as posted by the channelWhile Todd Entrekin may not be as smart as your average brick, he's much more corrupt. Lucky for him this is all legal! Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, hosts of The Young Turks, discuss. To get even more TYT in your life, go to and download our free app!
"A sheriff in Alabama took home as personal profit more than $750,000 that was budgeted to feed jail inmates — and then purchased a $740,000 beach house, a reporter at The Birmingham News found.
And it's perfectly legal in Alabama, according to state law and local officials.
Alabama has a Depression-era law that allows sheriffs to "keep and retain" unspent money from jail food-provision accounts. Sheriffs across the state take excess money as personal income — and, in the event of a shortfall, are personally liable for covering the gap.
Etowah County Sheriff Todd Entrekin told the News that he follows that practice of taking extra money from the fund, saying, "The law says it's a personal account and that's the way I've always done it.””*
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