Walker County Sheriff's Office

Plea documents in the case against a former Alabama jailer charged in the death of an inmate says officers intentionally kept the conditions “as filthy as possible” in an effort to increase their salaries and the jail budget. Former Walker County lieutenant Benjamin Shoemaker agreed last month to plead guilty to three federal counts of deprivation of civil rights under color of law.

A former corrections officer at the Walker County jail has agreed to plead guilty to a criminal charge in the death of a mentally ill man who died of hypothermia after being held naked in a concrete cell for two weeks.

Authorities in Florida have captured the last of the dozen prisoners who fled an Alabama county jail in a scheme involving peanut butter.Florida’s Martin…