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OK: DOC keep food costs low: $2.42 a day for 3 meals

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

DOC able to keep feeding costs low By The Associated Press Saturday, June 13, 2009 OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) ? The cash-strapped Oklahoma Department of Corrections has been able to offset the cost of feeding nearly 18,500 inmates daily because of an agricultural program that gives prisoners valuable skills, agency officials said. In the past fiscal year, the agency's Agriculture Services unit has earned more than $888,000 in profit from the sale of agriculture products such as beef, firewood and pecans, according to a report given to the Board of Corrections on Friday. Ken Klinger, who oversees the unit, told board members the agency's agriculture services not only makes a profit but gives inmates useful skills and occupies their time during incarceration...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 16, 2009 (boomark / email).