Don`t feel bad!!! Why are county inmates so important? NONE of the Alabama State Correctional Facilities have A/C!!!! Those guys have in some as many as 364 inmates in a dorm that is made of steel and block! The bunks are steel and too hat to be able to lay on, the ice machines are locked and ice call is rare! So, don`t use up all that pity on county inmates,. some may be heading for much worse conditions! Besides if it is uncomfortable, they may not want to return!!!

Our Sheriff Deapartment should do what the Sheriff does in Maricopa County. If you read the ariticle closely it was at the end where the criminals are rapist, murders and such. The tax paying citizens of Mobile County pay for the T.V., air conditioners, medical, clothes, food, shoes, washing thier clothes etc, etc. I have to work and pay for those things. Do not feel sorry for those people, they sleep until they want to get up and have meals served to them then watch the T.V. until 10:00 at night, they take showers and hop into bed. How many uf us can do that?

What did the prisoners of the era BEFORE a/c do? They were hot and sweaty. Bunch of bleeding hearts wanting the whole world soft and fluffy so nobody gets hurt. These prisoners got there by breaking the law. Maybe if they had a bad time in prison they might not want to do what got them there in the 1st place. There are elderly out there that freeze in the winter and burn up in the summer and they have not so much as run a red light. But we take good money and keep the criminals happy and well.

There are hard working people who work out in the heat everyday. Some people commit crimes just so they can be put in jail because our society makes it more comfortable for the criminals then we do for the everyday hard working law abiding citizens. Jail or Prison will feed, cloth, shelter, and provide recreational activites for the inmates. That is better than most have it now. Why wouldn’t someone in a less fortunate situation not want to be there. We need to show the public that braking the law has consiqueses. Isn’t the whole objection to make them NOT want to come back?

choffman so you saying these people deserve to die of heat exhaustion??? grow up man, they not all hardened criminals, they don’t deserve to have to worry about passing out and dying in a cell, for not having the money to pay simple traffic tickets.

I don’t understand what the big deal is!  These people are in jail they did not check into the Hilton Hotel.  They have no business being inside anyways.  They should be outside cleaning the streets.  I think it is an absolute shame that we have people that are more worried about the wrong doers than they do about more important issues.  Any money that is directed to the jail should be spent on more important issues like education.  Why should we make it more comfortable for them.  They should be the worst experience of their lives that way they don’t want to return!

I believe that the money Jack Tillman kept fron funds ment for inmate provisions should have been placed in safe keeping for just such an occurence as this.  I found it hard to believe that the system would allow an official to get away with this act.