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Prisons Saving Money By Serving Less Food

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Prisons Saving Money By Serving Less Food June 5, 2009 | Prisons in some American states are taking advice to tighten their belts literally by slimming down the amount of food they serve to inmates. Prisoners in Georgia are now going without lunch three days in a row ? the Department of Corrections recently eliminated midday meals on Fridays in addition to weekends. Ohio is also considering two-meal weekend menus by serving brunch instead of breakfast. And other states are cutting back on the amount of milk and fresh fruit prisoners get. Prison officials in Georgia say inmates are still getting enough to eat because portions are bigger on two-meal days. But Barbara Helie said if she didn't give her 25-year-old son $60 a week to buy extra food from Georgia's Valdosta State Prison commissary, he would go hungry...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 09, 2009 (boomark / email).