Voters in Alabama lost their appetite for a sheriff who personally profited off hundreds of thousands of dollars meant to buy food for inmates at the Etowah County Jail.
Sheriff Todd Entrekin lost his re-election campaign during the Republican primary on Tuesday. Entrekin has said he had no choice but to take the money, and has urged state legislators to change the law so that no sheriff can profit in that way.
In March, The Birmingham News reported that Entrekin had pocketed more than three-quarters of a million dollars over the course of three years, by spending far less on inmate meals than was budgeted.
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