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DECATUR, Ala., Jan. 9 (UPI) -- Morgan County jail inmates in Decatur, Ala., can look forward to better food now that the sheriff has agreed to quit skimping on meals, officials say.
The sheriff, Greg Bartlett, had been accused of going light on prisoners' meals and pocketing the leftover change. Alabama law allows it.
Bartlett, who earns $64,000 a year, was accused of pocketing $212,000 over the last three years, despite a state food allowance of only $1.75 per prisoner per day. The jail holds about 300 prisoners.
U.S. District Court Judge U. W. Clemon in Birmingham, after hearing complaints from a thinning jail population where everyone always seemed to be hungry, found the sheriff was in "blatant" violation of past agreements that his prisoners be properly cared for, The New York Times said. One inmate reported losing 30 pounds.
He ordered Bartlett jailed until he came up with a plan to adequately feed his prisoners.
After a night inside Bartlett was released from jail Thursday afternoon, agreeing to spend all the food allowance on jail meals, Clemon said.
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