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KY: DOC officials grilled over bad Aramark food.

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Corrections leaders grilled about prison food 1/20/2010 BRUCE SCHREINER The Associated Press (AP) ? FRANKFORT, Ky. - Kentucky lawmakers grilled top corrections officials Wednesday about the quality of meals served in state prisons in seeking to determine what role inmate displeasure with their food might have played in a fiery prison uprising last year. The House Judiciary Committee delved into the state's $11.8 million-a-year contract with Aramark Correctional Services, which provides meals at state-operated prisons in Kentucky. Rep. Brent Yonts, D-Greenville, raised questions about the quality and amounts of food served inmates, and recounted claims of incidents in which prison food was allegedly tainted by hair balls, rocks, cardboard, bread ties, worms and even human feces...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 21, 2010 (boomark / email).