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Interview with Tina

JM: How many meals did you get per day?
Tina: We received 3 meals per day.

JM: How would you rate the food? Please give details of why.
Tina: Bad, tolerable. Because, on the outside that's not what I would choose to eat. My body went through an adjustment to that type of diet. Filler food, potato everything, unidentifiable foods. When we had eggs, I really don't know what they poured them from. Sometimes I didn't know what was in what I was eating. I did ask and never got an answer. The menu even calls some of the food, strange meat, cow tongue, etc. On Sundays, we did get pasta salad with our lunch, about 2 sporks full.

JM: Did you have any favorite/least favorite meals?
Tina: The meal everyone looked forward to was Sunday dinner. We had chicken, real chicken. In fact, when someone was counting down days until their release we would count, days and a wake, and how many chicken dinners left to go. Ironically, the week I was to be released, they didn't serve chicken.

JM: Were there any other snacks offered outside of meals? What was commissary like and how expensive was it?
Tina: I don't recall other snacks. I drank alot of coffee. I snacked on pretzels from commissary. Commissary was nerve-racking. We had "bubble sheets" to fill out to order commissary. I feared filling out those forms, because if you didn't do it precisely, it would become a "beat sheet", and you wouldn't get anything. If you maxed out the amount you were allowed to spend, you didn't receive anything. The woman in HCDC that handled commissary was a CO wannabe. She was downright mean. I, at the permission of a CO, started a petition to have hair conditioner added to commissary. She replied, no, she explained that inmates had ruined that privilege years ago because they were hiding pills. I suggested in my petition, clear brush through conditioner. Nope.

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