To learn more about this tool and how it works, please scroll down to read More Info. Please note, these meals are recreations, and recreations only, based on the portions described by the food companies and corrections officials accused of skimping. Welcome to the NAIs opt-out page where you can learn more about NAI members who deliver tailored online ads and your choices to opt-out of receiving them. The caption read, 'When you break out of prison and find out about McDonald's monopoly.' The mean post immediately caught Miller's attention, and he wasted no time fighting back with this. Here, a look at the menus from some facilities at the center of recent lawsuits and inmate complaints.
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The association recommends - but does not mandate - that prisons offer inmates three meals a day.īudget-conscience legislators in a number of states, however, have proposed reducing the minimum number of meals down to two per day, and prison officials are increasingly outsourcing food service to private contractors to slash food costs. All detention facilities must have a licensed dietician review their menus in order to be accredited by the American Correctional Association. Some jails and prisons require low-fat or low-sodium diets, while others mandate inmates receive a certain number of calories. A Texas law requiring inmates be fed three times in 24 hours, for example, only applies to county jail inmates, not state prisoners. Nutritional standards at state and local facilities are governed by a patchwork of state laws, local policies, and court decisions. And a group of prisoners at the Schuylkill County Prison in Pennsylvania filed a federal civil rights lawsuit claiming the portions they received are “not even enough to fill a 5-year-old child.” Inmates at the Montgomery County Jail in New York alleged that meager portions led to increased violence among the inmates one inmate lost 90 pounds in less than six months. The two meals a day weren't enough to sustain them, and some reportedly resorted to eating toothpaste and toilet paper.
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according to a preliminary investigation by human rights attorneys last fall - are starving. Inmates at the Gordon County Jail in Calhoun, Ga.