Inmate Chef Overspends Food Budget by $8K
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DURANT, Okla. - Inmate meals at the Bryan County Jail aren't what they used to be after authorities discovered an inmate chef with a gourmet palate spent more than twice as much on groceries as was budgeted.
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Life & style: Restaurant guide reveals average meal costs Â£39, but good value can be found.
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The state's human-services chief was ordered to pay $80,000 for keeping mentally ill inmates in jail, a fine that came a week after she was charged with criminal contempt.
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Several of the largest health care providers in the county have sued the Sheriff&#39;s Department, claiming they have been shortchanged by at least $1.2 million over the past 15 months for medical care given to sick jail inmates.
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A lawyer for a radical Muslim cleric facing a U.S. extradition warrant complained Friday that his health was suffering from the lack of proper food and facilities in prison.
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Who is the new chef/host/spender in town?
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ALBUQUERQUE - A man pulled much more than a dollar from his pocket when he went to pay for items at a convenience store here, police said.
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Each day when inmates at Abu Ghraib prison lined up for meals in October 2003, dozens left hungry. Maj. David DiNenna, an Army operations officer at the prison near Baghdad, worried
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The Boulder County sheriff's office incurred $6,070 in costs relating to the arrest, extradition and court appearance of John Mark Karr, the former suspect in the death of JonBenet Ramsey.
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MARION, Ind. - A woman who spent 30 days living in a 4-by-7-foot kennel to raise money for an animal shelter emerged after collecting more than $8,000.
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PRAGUE, Czech Republic - It will be the most expensive keg of beer he's ever had. A 32-year-old Czech man got himself locked up in a pizzeria late Wednesday to have free access to beer overnight.
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The annual salary paid to Jerry D. Weast, superintendent of the Montgomery County schools, has increased just $4,892 since he took the job eight years ago.
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PHILADELPHIA -- Money's a little tight right now for Fred Cratil as he and some relatives put the finishing touches on their new Italian restaurant.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - A man serving a life sentence for murder was sentenced to three additional years in prison for passing out cheese sandwiches while in jail.
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SPOKANE, Wash. - Talk about your Iron Chefs. Proving that the steel bars of the Washington State Penitentiary are no barrier to fine dining, inmates at the Walla Walla prison have just produced "The Convict Cookbook," which includes recipes that can actually be made inside a cell without a stove.
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D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee announced yesterday that she will seek a contractor to upgrade the cafeteria menus with more nutritious and tasty food, saying the in-house program lost $30 million in three years partly because students refuse to buy meals that don't taste good.
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Jacob Alexander, former chief executive of Comverse Technology, is complaining to his lawyers that the food in jail is not quite up to par.