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"Jailbirds Order Up Hot Wings"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this fascinating article about a modern new development in the economics of prison food from yesterday's Wall Street Journal.  Here is how the piece starts: In a bid to raise cash and keep the peace in crowded jails, wardens nationwide are offering inmates the chance to order meatball subs, cheeseburgers, chicken parmesan ? even a "Pizza and Wings Party Pack," complete with celery, blue cheese and a Pepsi. The program goes beyond the old-fashioned prison commissary, with its cup-a-soups and bags of chips, and it can be quite lucrative for corrections departments.  "We have to be creative in tough fiscal times," said Edwin G. Buss, commissioner of Indiana's Department of Correction. But critics worry the service will trigger jealousies, promote unhealthy diets and coddle prisoners...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on April 28, 2010 (boomark / email).