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Interview with Jen, Kelsey, Charlize and Cody

JM: How many meals did you get per day?
Jen: 3 meals a day were provided
Kelsey: Fresno County: Breakfast (gross!) you get up at dark thirty and get your sack lunch at same time. then dinner ( all gross!) Tulare County: 3
Charlize: 3
Cody: They'd come around 6 AM and give you a sack lunch and at 6 PM you had hot food.

JM: How would you rate the food? Please give details of why.
Jen: Awful, breakfast usually consisted of high fat foods; tortillas, 1 hard boiled egg, milk 2%, an orange or banana or apple, and cold cream of wheat. Lunch was always a sandwich, usually meat that as old and dried up cheese, another piece of fruit, unripened orange, and a small bag of chips. Dinner was usually tortillas with beans, rice and a hamburger substance, lettuce and some tomato diced. It was better in General population, you had friends that worked in the kitchen and you could always get the better food; this was because they were able to bring back the food they made for the cops in the kitchen. The cops always got better food: chocolate cake, speghetti, tacos, real hamburgers and hotdogs. Things that had taste were not given out to the inmates.
Kelsey: Rating from 1-10 Fresno: 0 Tulare: 1
Cody: I'd give the food at both facilities (since they're pretty much the exact same stuff) about one out of ten. The bologna sandwiches are just plain gross. They would give you two rotten or moldy plums every day. The egg whites were like gray. The milk was warm. Pretty gross stuff generally.

JM: Did you have any favorite/least favorite meals?
Jen: I hated all the food they had. It tasted like crap. I like to eat food with flavor not cardboard.
Kelsey: Favs: Bag of chips
Cody: No I really can't say that I did one way or the other. Its all very bland stuff that you can't really hate since it is food, but you don't really enjoy sine its of such poor quality.

JM: Were there any other snacks offered outside of meals? What was commissary like and how expensive was it?
Jen: No there were never any snacks given out. They snacks were if someone saved the chips from lunch, or if they got to go shopping from the money they had on account.
Kelsey: Is this a trick question?
Cody: No there most definitely was not. I personally did not have any money on my books while I was there, but there was a guy next door who would spend the maximum $250 a week on Top Ramen and candy. The prices are insanely high. Like $9 for a little bottle of shampoo and the like.

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