Defense Lawyers Buy Toilet Paper for Grateful Prison Inmates

Criminal defense lawyers in Birmingham stepped up to the, er, commode after learning that officials at the local Jefferson County Jail were severely rationing toilet paper.

They donated not only 2,700 rolls of TP for the facility's 1,200 inmates but soap and other supplies for the cash-strapped lockup, reports the National Law Journal in an article reprinted in New York Lawyer (reg. req.).

"They were rationing toilet paper two or three strips at a time," attorney Mitch Jamsky, who paid for $40 worth of provisions, tells the Birmingham News, and inmates, he says, were appreciative of the new supply. "There was a whole lot of gratitude."