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Interview with Seth, Ellen and Isaac

JM: How many meals did you get per day?
Seth: you would get 3 a day
Ellen: YOU GET THREE SMALL MEALS A DAY
Isaac: They served three meals a day.

JM: How would you rate the food? Please give details of why.
Seth: cold the food would be nasty and by the time you get it to the dorm it would be cold and nasty then when it got there it might take 10 or 15 minutes to get the food served because the officers would be so slow and they did not care
Ellen: THE FOOD WAS REALLY HARD TO EAT. I HAD TO FORCE MYSELF TO EAT ON SOME DAYS. YOU HAVE TO SO YOU DON'T LOSE A LOT OF WEIGHT. NO SALT OR PEPPER, EVERY ONCE IN AWHILE SURPRISINGLY WE WOULD GET MUSTARD OR A REAL PIECE OF CHICKEN AND THAT WAS A DELICACY
Isaac: The food was pretty bad and not very filling. There was little done to enhance the flavor of the food so everything was kind of bland. The portions were very small. The meat was indistinguishable at times and had a consistency of rubber. Most meals would come with some type of bread which was often stale.

JM: Did you have any favorite/least favorite meals?
Seth: i had to eat or you would starve but if i had to choose my favorite it would be chicken because i was on a special diet because of my heart problems and the food i did not like was meatloaf
Ellen: THE CHICKEN LEG MEAL WAS THE FAVORITE MEAL AND WE'D GET THAT MAYBE ONCE A MONTH. THE LEAST WAS A LIVER MACARONI. YUCK!
Isaac: I disliked all of the food that I was served while in Richland county. Sometimes they would serve chicken which was close to actually being enjoyable, but not quite.

JM: Were there any other snacks offered outside of meals? What was commissary like and how expensive was it?
Seth: the only snacks a person would get was at night if you were diabetic had aids or any other diease that required you to get a snack bag to your dorm and they looked good
Ellen: NO SNACKS WERE GIVEN UNLESS YOU HAD HEALTH ISSUES LIKE DIABETES. CANTEEN WASN'T EXPENSIVE AT ALL BUT NO DRINKS WERE OFFERED AT ALL, NO SODA!! A CANDY BAR WAS AROUND A DOLLAR AND SHOES TEN DOLLARS. IT WASN'T HIGH DOLLAR
Isaac: Snack items could be purchased from the canteen by inmates who had money on their account. Most of these items were things that could be found in any convenience store: cookies, chips, etc. Everything was price slightly over what it would cost in the free world.

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