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Interview with Cami, Tombstone, Strawberry, Tonya, Jay, Fred, Alice and Patrick

JM: How many meals did you get per day?
Cami: We had three meals.
Tombstone: 3; breakfast about 6.30am,lunch about 11a;than dinner about 5p,breakfast would be a couple of spoonfuls of eggs,a biscuit,maybe a couple of prunes,& coffee,lunch was the best meal,2 hot dogs,a spoonful of beans,& maybe a small slice of cake;dinner was the smallest meal of the day,veggie spaghetti,lima beans ,& a biscuit,
Strawberry: 3 meals a day
Tonya: 3
Jay: Three meals Monday thru Saturday and two on Sunday
Fred: We were given 3 meals a day
Alice: three meals a day if you considered them meals
Patrick: three breakfast lunch and dinnder

JM: How would you rate the food? Please give details of why.
Cami: Worse than old school food we used to have to eat.
Tombstone: some of it was ok, the portions are so small you stay hungry all the time, in Alabama the sheriff gets to keep whatever funds are left over from his food budget as salary,,so common sense tells you,he`s not going to go out of his way.We`re talking thousands of dollars,he gets to keep.It still really pisses me off today,I was starving-literally.
Strawberry: HA...HORRIBLE
Tonya: Fair
Jay: I would rate the food very poor must of it just dont look good at all then it was the same stuff every week then they give you child servings there was a rumor going around in prison they say on the boxes with the meat patties not for human cosuption
Fred: I would rate the food a 4 on a scale from 1 to 10. The food was very plain and was always cold. Everything they served was always starched based. It consisted of different types of noodles and potatoes and beans on every tray but breakfast. Breakfast consisted of two bold eggs and a thing of grits
Alice: since jefferson county is broke, we ONLY got a half a cup of koolaid as ling as there was enough- the food was bland and lunch and dinner were recylced with added vegetables.always jello for dessert and maybe a pack of crackers or a piece of bread if we were lucky
Patrick: ZERO awful beyond awful, Food tasted awful, and was not enough food for 200 pound people, I seldom aat mine and just paid for food for them commissary, it really suck, I would not feed that to my dog, they should not be allowed to feed what they do. plain and simple

JM: Did you have any favorite/least favorite meals?
Cami: No, I would eat enough to survive and give the rest away.
Tombstone: Dinner was always crap,but they did have some good lunches,just small portions, one good one- hamburger steak & gravy;one terrible-fried okra,a boiled potato,a biscuit,& one slice of canned peaches, & always grape koolaid,never any milk,to drink--& only one small cup of that
Strawberry: my fav was lunch cause they gave ya real mean....breakfast sucked cause it was grits eggs and a slice of bread...every now and then ua had jelly...or biscuit
Tonya: No food is good in jail
Jay: yea the best thing they have was chicken on sundays the worst thing was the liver pattie I smelled it ont time and it was.a good smell then it had grisle in it so I never tasted it
Fred: My favorite meal was breakfast because it was the only meal that seemed to feel you up and feel like you ate something
Alice: i lost weight in the county because the food was so baD. there was never any seasoning,, salt pepper NOTHING.
Patrick: no, breakfast was the best, but all the food was awful, the do not even have cold water to offer you

JM: Were there any other snacks offered outside of meals? What was commissary like and how expensive was it?
Cami: Commissary was offered, you fill out a sheet of what snacks you want, then the following week you received the food. This was only available if you had money on your books.
Tombstone: No snacks;every afternoon, a cart would come around & you could buy a large cup of Pepsi;sometimes the trusties would have food down their pants,like the hot dogs,& you could buy them if you have the quarters,which tells you how bad things are in there.They do have a commissary there-owned by the sheriff!where you can buy snacks-another reason to starve you,you buy more!
Strawberry: ya had to spen an outragous amout of money to buy snacks from commisary
Tonya: Yes
Jay: The only other snacks was commissary yes it was expensive for one pack of noddles it was 55¢ drinks 75¢ for the cheap brand 1 honeybun was 1.25 you got commissary once a week you have to fill out the paper of what you want turn it and you will get your stuff lateer that week
Fred: Yes but you have to buy them from the store. The commissary was good but was very high. A honey bun cost you $1.75 and a cup of noodles cost around $2.00 for one and you could only get 10 items at a time
Alice: there was a cart that came every three weeks that was expensive- 4 dollar hamburgers, chili dogs, 2 dollar candy and the regular commissary was about average. it was delivered by a company called swanson
Patrick: yes, Commissary was 3x a snack store, they have chips, some chicken in a tune pouch, candy that type of stuff, you are limited to 60 dollars per week, I spent 60 every week on food.

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