Inmates Get the Goods in Jail Pizza Scheme
There was no question of the jail inmates at the Los Angeles Police Department’s Foothill Station going out for dinner. So they did what the non-incarcerated do in those circumstances--ordered out.
Officer G.D. Williams, who was working the station’s desk, paid a delivery man $12 for a pizza--plus a $3 tip--thinking another officer had ordered it.
“But when I couldn’t find the person who ordered it--and thought I was going to get stuck for the tab--I started cussing,” Williams said Thursday.
About the same time, an inmate called the front desk and asked if his pizza had arrived.
Williams checked to see if the telephone order violated department policy. It didn’t, so he turned the pizza over to the inmates when they repaid his $15.
“No one had ever heard of any inmates doing something like this,” Williams said.
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