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Interview with Seth, Clark and Lisa

JM: How many meals did you get per day?
Seth: they gave us three meals a day
Clark: Each inmate received a total of 3 meals per day -- breakfast, lunch and dinner. You also had the option of buying commissary food with your own money as well.
Lisa: We received three meals per day

JM: How would you rate the food? Please give details of why.
Seth: the food was a 3 to me because it would take a lot to get worse but I'm sure its possible the gravy was clear they served mystery meat and slop or mac& cheese mixed with spoiled ham or paper thin lunch meat and beans every lunch and dinner not to mention every breakfast they either had watered down grits or oatmeal with child sized portions
Clark: If I had to pick one thing as standing out as the worst part of the jail experience, it would undeniably be the food. Most of the jail provided meals were extremely bland tasting and the portions very small. It was rare to actually feel full after eating a whole meal. I was told that they limit daily caloric intake to 1500 unless an inmate has a specific order from a doctor that they require more, and I suspect this has something to do with getting people to order more food with their commissary accounts. In addition to this, I noticed multiple times being served expired food. I would say about half of the time the milk and juice pint-boxes were expired. Another time some of our beans were tampered with by the jail staff -- they had put cigarette butts into the beans so that they tasted like an ash tray. Upon mentioning the beans to the jail staff, they just ignored the complaint.
Lisa: I would rate it as poor. The waffles were not cooked and left to unthaw at room temp. There was a lot of bread given which increased our weight. They served a lot of beans that tasted like dirt. Very little friut was given. Most of the food was not warm. The koolaid as ver waterd down

JM: Did you have any favorite/least favorite meals?
Seth: I had no favorite meal only ones I could tolerate and my least favorite was the "hockey puck" it was a ball of ground turkey baked and boiled
Clark: Oh definitely. Some mornings we would get waffles with maple syrup and oatmeal and this was probably the best jail served meal that they had. For dinner time I would say the turkey burger wasn't bad. The only kind of meat that the facility serves is all turkey based.
Lisa: Breakfast was the best meal.although the waffles were clod with the syrup they were still very tasty. We did have turkey sausage with them

JM: Were there any other snacks offered outside of meals? What was commissary like and how expensive was it?
Seth: no nothing offered but on commissary you could buy a variety of things but its over priced they want 90 cent for a 25 cent bag of chips they want $1.50 for a candy bar they want $1 for one noodle cup
Clark: Yes you were able to order food with your commissary account, which was possible to do every other day as long as you were not an inmate on any sort of restriction. You were allowed to order $30 for any particular day. The commissary list for food had about 50 different types of drinks and food, all of which basically being snack foods (Little Debbies was especially popular), candy bars or condiments such as peanut butter/jelly/ketchup. A typical candy bar was $1, some food like packets of lasagna would go up to about $3.50 each. Most items were slightly price-inflated.
Lisa: We were not allowed snacks. I was a diabetic and was not given any extra meals. Commissary was expensive. They did not have much for a diadetic such as sugar free items. It was diffulcult to not have many items to choose from.

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