Friday, January 09, 2009
AS INMATES GREW THINNER, SHERIFF'S WALLET GREW FATTER
The Southern Center for Human Rights is to be congratulated for bringing a halt to the practice discussed in this article.
On a local level, some of the changes reported in Knight making changes are encouraging. It, will however, be interesting to learn whether Sheriff Knight will end some of the long-standing abuses referenced in our April 2, 2005 post "PROFITING FROM INMATE LABOR" or whether it will be "business as usual."
Granted, some of these practices are "legal" in the same manner that the Decatur Sheriff's actions are "LEGAL." But, that makes them neither moral nor ethical. Starving people in order to line your own pocket is sinful and should be a crime.
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