When my kids were little, I went with them on a group tour of the police station. Hopefully the jail part of the tour was intended to be a “scared straight” experience because they really succeeded in making it dehumanizing.

For food, they said they would take money from your possessions to buy McDonald’s. No choice of what food, no choice of better food, no choice of when. And you get your meal whether you eat it or not.

Whataburger seems like a huge step up, plus if you’re stealing my money, giving me a choice doesn’t seem out of line

But if the deputy had shot and murdered the inmate instead he would have been given a paid vacation, and probably a raise.

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.

Was it a Whataburger dry run?