The Pinal County Sheriff’s Office run by U.S. Senate candidate Sheriff Mark Lamb has spent at least $217,000 from a jail commissary fund that Arizona lawmakers mandated be used “for the benefit and welfare of inmates” to instead buy a cache of weapons, ammunition and ballistic vests.
The purchases violate state law, criminal justice experts say.
Arizona Luminaria reviewed expenses and revenues from the sheriff’s office inmate welfare fund over a five-year period. From July 2018 to July 2023, the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office spent just over $4 million for inmate services. At least $217,000 of that, or about 5.5%, was spent on guns, bullets and vests for the law enforcement agency, according to county budget documents obtained via a public records request.
Over the same five years, the county spent less than $900 on books for people detained in the jail
Sherrifs have been doing shit like this for as long as we’ve had sherrifs…
It’s almost like we need a national agency to hold police accountable or, I dunno, try fucking anything?
The police unions would start foaming at the mouth.
Let’s hope it’s cyanide foam
It’s a bit of rabies foam mixed in with zombie foam.
Alright, now give them to the inmates.
That’s one solution, the other is make the Sheriff (and anyone else involved) an inmate.
Arizona has a long history of shitty sheriffs
Pima county resident here: Pinal county is pretty much a Trump cesspool of retirees and people who think the world is out to get them. Their county has been on a steady decline as the brain drain moves north to Phoenix. Doesn’t surprise me lmao.
Is it Pie-nal, pee-nal, or pin-al?
Pin-al
PIN-al or pin-AL?
pi-NAL or p’NAL
Pin-al
Well that’s one way to ensure their welfare i guess
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