Commissary vendors, which provide the food and hygiene items sold to incarcerated people at a markup, have for years reaped ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Cuyahoga County jail inmates are once again being promised better food as officials tweak menus to replace “slurry-type” meals and avoid food waste. The Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s ...

SOMERSET, Pa. – Somerset County is turning over its jail’s food service contract to a Florida company. The move will likely dish out more than $200,000 in savings for the county over the next 12 ...

Commissioners plan to request bids for jail food service next month, and Thatcher said he's not yet sure whether CCCS will submit one. The jail food bill hovers around $20,000 a month, or roughly $240 ...

The Tax Court held that a sheriff’s withdrawal and subsequent repayment of funds used to provide food to prisoners constituted an unauthorized loan and not embezzlement income. Additionally, the court ...

Last year, Etowah County Sheriff Todd Entrekin’s tax forms from 2015 and 2016 showed he had made a profit from the kitchen of the county jail, which houses roughly 900 inmates. One might praise the ...

What was expected to be a rubber-stamped jail food bid document was altered significantly at Wednesday night's council meeting. In a surprise move, commissioners voted 8-3 to change the bid ...