NATIONAL BRIEFING / ALABAMA
Times Wire Reports
A federal judge ordered a sheriff locked up in his own jail after holding him in contempt for failing to adequately feed inmates and profiting from the skimpy meals.
U.S. District Judge U.W. Clemon had Morgan County Sheriff Greg Bartlett arrested after testimony from skinny prisoners about paper-thin bologna and cold grits.
The sheriff testified that he legally kept as personal income about $212,000 in surplus meal money but denied that inmates were deprived.
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