Sheriff legally used $750,000 in inmate food funds for beach house

A sheriff pocketed $750,000 meant to feed prison inmates and used it to buy a lavish beach house - and it was completely legal.

Etowah County Sheriff Todd Entrekin filed 'more than $250,000' of extra 'compensation' with the Alabama Ethics Commission from inmate feeding funds.

He claimed it under an obscure pre-WWII law allowed Alabama sheriffs to keep 'excess' prison food provisions for themselves.

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