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Interview with Bruce, Jen, Crystal, Allison and Deanne

JM: How many meals did you get per day?
Bruce: The jails served 2 meals per day...I believe at 10:00 and again at 5:00
Jen: You received 3 meals per day
Crystal: We were served 3 meals a day
Allison: You get two meals a day
Deanne: 3. Breakfast, lunch and dinner.

JM: How would you rate the food? Please give details of why.
Bruce: Horrible. The meat was never really hot and usually mixed with slop that was some kind of sauce. The early meal was better...usually bread and a grapefruit. I was out before the meals were served and back after during the week, so I ate my meals at my house or in restaurants but on Sunday I had to eat the jail food sometimes.
Jen: The food was one of the most disgusting parts of being at MCSO, I worked in the kitchen and saw that the majority of the food was donated and mostly expired, we would make a meal that we called "slop" that you could never identify what was in it or what it was suppose to be. It honestly sometimes smelled and to be honest gave some of the women the worst gas in the world, the food in a word was inhumane and shouldn't be feed to animals.
Crystal: The food was absolutely disgusting especially dinner. I would usually eat the breakfast because their was milk and fruit. Lunch had bread with some greasy ham which was not that bad. Lunch also included some cookies and milk that were good. The worst meals were the hot prepared meals. they were very bland and looked like sludge.
Allison: Well I worked in the kitchen and so I got to eat all the timr and then sumtimes I would get my comencary and have soda oh hpe u love sum tin to drink in there causr all u get is tap water used to br able to get koolaid no more
Deanne: Not applicable because I never ate anything, besides for the oranges. The food always looked disguisting, smelled horrible and made my stomach upset from just thinking about it. I also heard rumors that the cost of each meal is something like 13 cents each. It is all made from spoiled, rotten and expired date food items.

JM: Did you have any favorite/least favorite meals?
Bruce: No, it was all horrible. I did like the grapefruits, so I would usually eat a couple of those though.
Jen: The only food I tried to eat was food I purchased form the store one per week we were allowed to order, with the exception of some of the fruit and peanut butter I would eat
Crystal: I actually loved the cookies that came with the afternoon meals. They were the best with milk but everything else was not very good.
Allison: No I didnt like the food ots slop and the ckicken was harry and every ting gross how ca can
Deanne: The only item I ever even ate was the oranges and some items from the vending machines which were products of other companies.

JM: Were there any other snacks offered outside of meals? What was commissary like and how expensive was it?
Bruce: There were vending machines with soda and candy in it. We were allowed to bring $20 in with us each time we left and came back. The food was normal vending machine stuff and regularly priced.
Jen: No other snacks were offered or allowed except what was purchased through commissary. The food purchased was very overpriced for the size and amounts you would recieve, plus if you lived in tent city much of the time your food in locker was overtaken by mice and ants and this was the only place permitted to keep food
Crystal: We were allowed to the commissary twice a day because it was on the male side and they had to go on lock down when we went over there. the commissary was expensive but I mainly ate out of there as opposed to the jail food. my favorite were the burritos and sour patch kids.
Allison: There was comencery and that was it no exyra nothen u dont have some one to give u money then u get no extra nothen n every ting cost a whole lot of monry an
Deanne: Vending machines that were overpriced and did not always produce the item you paid for. Commissary was once a day. Prices were high, like 75 cents for a bag of chips that you get at grocery store for 25 cents.

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