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    191 month ago

    It was likely meant to be used for other means to buy what is needed. But clearly not written well to stop corruption

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      1 month ago

      Not at all, that’s the purpose. The article says this law was defined a century ago. It was the sheriffs personal responsibility to feed prisoners, so there was money set aside to do so.

      Certainly the law is not reasonable as soon as they got beyond the money coming from someone else, the town getting bigger, we have supposedly developed as a society, it’s no longer a frontier town