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News of the sick: Chicago: Sherriff to save money by serving prisoners breakfasst at 4:30 AM

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Sheriff Tom Dart. In an attempt to save money, Dart will have prisoners arrive to breakfast at 4:30 a.m. 03-18-10 -Huffington Post Sheriff Tom Dart has been cutting costs with a vengeance at the Cook County Department of Corrections. And on Thursday, he announced another nearly $2 million dollars in savings. This time, it's coming at the expense of breakfast. Right now, prisoners in Cook County are brought breakfast in their cells, starting around 4:30 a.m. But because many prisoners are still asleep at that time, spokesman Steve Patterson told the Sun-Times' Michael Sneed that many breakfasts go uneaten. "The prisoners are usually still sleeping at that time . . . and Sheriff Dart is tired of seeing stacks of uneaten trays of food left in the hallways," Patterson said...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 19, 2010 (boomark / email).