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Interview with Karl and Wilford

JM: How many meals did you get per day?
Karl: Three. Plus whatever you wanted to snack on the from the overly expensive commissary.
Wilford: three meals per day were given

JM: How would you rate the food? Please give details of why.
Karl: On a scale of 1 to 10, about a 4. Occasionally, on holidays, the quality would increase and we would get dessert such as pumpkin pie
Wilford: a 4 out of ten. the breakfest was decent because a few times a week they would give us hot breakfest such as soggy scrambled eggs, or terrible grits, or bland pancakes. the lunch was mostly sandwiches with very low grade lunch meat and minimal condiments. all the meat served at dinner was soy meat. terrible.

JM: Did you have any favorite/least favorite meals?
Karl: My favorite meal was the corkscrew pasta with cream sauce usually served every other Friday. My least favorite meal was lunch on Saturday, which was just six slices of greasy bologna and mustard packets, potato chips and a small apple.
Wilford: least favorite meal was the chicken ala king dinner. no flavor and just nasty tasting. favorite is probably the boiled eggs at lunch once a week.

JM: Were there any other snacks offered outside of meals? What was commissary like and how expensive was it?
Karl: Only for the inmates who had special dietary needs assessed and authorized by the jail doctor. You were not even permitted to keep any food overnight, whether you had containers with covers or not. Some C.O.s would only let you keep food from one meal to the next and during a "frisk" would confiscate and throw away perfectly good food you were attempting to save.
Wilford: there was no snacks offered at all. commissary was good but very expensive. one ramen noodle packet was 75 cents. every time a friend or family member would drop off money the jail would charge them 2.75

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