Etowah, Alabama County Sheriff Todd Entrekin took advantage of a
Great-Depression-era rule that lets the sheriff pocket any “excess” from
the budget for prisoner meals (provided he makes up any shortfall from
his own finances) and used $750,000 that had been allocated to feed
prisoners to build himself a luxury beach house. When his gardener
tipped off a Birmingham News reporter, the gardener was locked up in the
Sheriff’s jail on mysterious drug charges.
Sheriff Etrekin insists he obeyed the letter of the law, and that he is
being attacked by “the liberal media.” He says that he had nothing to do
with locking up Matt Qualls, his whistleblowing landscaper.
Prisoners who served time in the Sheriff’s jail report being systematically underfed.
