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While it sounds silly, COs accepting payment for doing favors for an inmate is not a good thing. That's the kind of thing that sorta needs to be a zero tolerance policy.
True, but why are we making food contraband in the first place? That seems incredibly unnecessary
Because inmates get super creative with smuggling in drugs and weapons.
A hyperbolic example is the king of the hill episode where Peggy gets conned into smuggling cocaine into prison.
It probably has to do with the inability/expense of the facility to be able to properly secure outside food against other more serious kinds of contraband.
i didn't see in the article that he accepted more than the cost of the meal.
He got a burger as well. It's seemingly minor, but we have a saying that "many small streams make a large river". The cop probably meant well, but it's unacceptable behavior unfortunately.
That's still payment for doing a favor.
No it wouldn't be.
Yes, it's compensation for doing a favor. Payment doesn't have to be cash.
What compensation? He said that he only gave him enough money to pay for the food. If I give you $10 and say go buy me $10 of something there's no compensation.
He ate some fries on the way this is unacceptable
They gave him enough that he could buy food for himself.