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Interview with Maria, Tommy, Mark, Marilyn, Rafael and Blair

JM: How many meals did you get per day?
Maria: two
Tommy: one hot meal one sack lunch
Mark: You get a sack meal at 3:30 AM which is breakfast and lunch--four pieces of bread, mustard pack, 4 pieces of cheese, and some horrible meat pack and a small milk, small corn flake pack, a little dried drink pack (grape, orange) two more pieces of bread and peanut butter jelly (sometimes you get 2 hard boil eggs insead) Dinner at 5 pm, no seasoned crap, with no seasoned veggie, wilted salad, corn bread and cookies
Marilyn: 2 hot meals and a cold lunch
Rafael: Only two.
Blair: We were given a meal sack for breakfast and lunch. In the evening we received a hot meal.

JM: How would you rate the food? Please give details of why.
Maria: on the scale from 1-10 a -5
Tommy: o
Mark: The peanut butter jelly is OK, cookies OK and you get really small oranges
Marilyn: 2 awful. i'm not sure how they get away feeding us some of the stuff they serve. they contract outside the jail for the food and its GROSS. i used to work in the jail kitchen years ago and the food the was a lot better and there were probably less inmates then
Rafael: From 1 to 10 ill say 1!. Who ever wants to be in jail who ever rates a ten most really like jail.
Blair: I would rate the food as poor. We were given six pieces of bread, sandwich meat, oranges, milk, cereal, drink mix and peanut butter. The dinners were always beans of some sort. The food did not taste good by it did provide nourishment and for those who did not have money to purchase food from the commissary, it was adequate.

JM: Did you have any favorite/least favorite meals?
Maria: none
Tommy: none
Mark: Soy burger, best meal and it was crap
Marilyn: NO there was NOTHING i liked about any of the food the served. i ate the food but only because i would stave if not
Rafael: No favorites
Blair: Every meal provided was my least favorite. I purchased my own food so I did not eat the food provided.

JM: Were there any other snacks offered outside of meals? What was commissary like and how expensive was it?
Maria: cookies
Tommy: no
Mark: Comissary is good, they have ramon noodles, candy, chips, coffee and such
Marilyn: the didn't offer anything else to inmates free other than the 3 meals. they do offer commissary at very ridiculous prices. i believe you can spend up $125 a week. the price for a top roman noodle was 81 cents in 2008 so i'm sure its more now
Rafael: Yes comessry. A bag of nuddles were 90. That is very expensive
Blair: Commissary was ridiculously expensive. You could purchase a variety of foods if you were okay with paying five times the regular retail value. Commissary was ordered on Tuesday morning and delivered on Wednesday evening. If you did not order commissary you could ask for a Welfare Pack which included envelopes, razor, toothbrush, paper and pencils.

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