“Following backlash over officials pocketing thousands of dollars in excess funds for their own personal use, Ivey withdrew the policy of ‘paying prisoner food service allowances directly to sheriffs in their personal capacities’ in a memo to the state comptroller, The Associated Press reported.”
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