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Interview with Milles, Preston, Lauren, Rosa and Dallas

JM: How many meals did you get per day?
Milles: three meals per day breakfast lunch and dinner.
Preston: We were only given three tiny meals a day, not unless you had commissary to buy more to eat.
Lauren: Three meaks. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Rosa: I got three meals a day
Dallas: I got three meals per day.

JM: How would you rate the food? Please give details of why.
Milles: the food wasn't horrible. it was edible but had very little flavor. everything was steamed. there was never enough food per person to fill you up.
Preston: The prison food was horrible. Not enough food. It was all carbs and the meals were so small that I actually lost weight. I was sick many nights from my meals. Also malnourished. The meals came on tiny plates. I spent 30-dallors a week on commissary to buy others meals.
Lauren: On a scale of 1-10 with 1 being worst and 10 best, i'd say a 4. Edible but not what i would have chose to eat. I personally felt as if my skin was greenish looking eating so many bologna sandwiches. The food just gets really boring but a persons got to eat if you dont you will be threatened with being put on suicide watch. They did it to me.
Rosa: How am I going to give a fifty Word Rating on the food? The food was nasty. It was like processed globby chicken head mash and I hated it. I don't like mystery meat I like beef and not beef pudding it's gross man I like home food because it is fresh and organic
Dallas: Is there a negative scale? The food was bland, and there wasn't enough. I was always hungry. One meal for example was bologna sandwich, an apple, and a cookie, and milk, or a cup of juice. Nothing really to fill you up, just keep you alive it seems like almost.

JM: Did you have any favorite/least favorite meals?
Milles: i liked the fruit and the milk the best but any meats were gross. i couldn't eat most of what they served.
Preston: My favorite meal was waffles and eyes; what little that we did receive. My lease favorite was the bologna sandwiches.
Lauren: Not really. It was all pretty much the same to me and every meal served with milk or kool-aid. Food there makes it difficult to have regular bowel Movements.
Rosa: Mm my favorite meal was them biscuits and gravy in the morning I'm telling you it was the tastiest I've had
Dallas: Yeah, the ones when I got out of jail. I guess the holiday meals would have been the best that I ate in there.

JM: Were there any other snacks offered outside of meals? What was commissary like and how expensive was it?
Milles: no meals or snacks were offered at any time and we were not allowed to save food.
Preston: NO. THERE WERE NEVER ANY SNACKS OFFERD, NOT UNLESS AN INMATE WORKED AS AN ORDERLY ON THE MAIN FLOOR. I BOUGHT 30 -DOLLARS OF CONTEEN WEEKLY. It came once a week and make dope feign switches.
Lauren: No, only if you purchased commissary. Some items on commissary were expensive and some items were reasonably priced. Many inmates unfortunately don't have funds and are considered indigent, indigent will get you 5 stamped envelopes and very basic.necessities.
Rosa: Only commissary and commissary isn't very expensive it depends on what you want noodles are pretty expensive but I had so much commissary it made me fatter I was sick you Know sick with that food love
Dallas: There were no snacks offered outside of the meals. Commissary wasn't very expensive, but you have to have money for that, and I didn't. I didn't get any snacks outside of my three meals per day.

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