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Alabama Sheriff Charged With Raiding Jail Food Fund
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2006
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2006, page 34
Mobile County, Alabama, Sheriff Jack Tilman has been charged with theft and violation of the public officials ethical laws for allegedly taking for personal use funds allocated by the state to feed jail prisoners.
Filed under:
Jail Misconduct,
Criminal Prosecution,
Conditions of Confinement,
Food.
Location:
Alabama.
Alabama paid Tilman $1.75 per day to feed the prisoners in the Mobile Metro Jail. Tilman ...
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