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Meals

Interview with Reggie, Sarah, Brenda, Mike and Will

JM: How many meals did you get per day?
Reggie: 3
Sarah: (3) meals. Breakfast would be anywhere from 4 am to 8 am, lunch don't know, and supper, well I lost track of time and sometimes didn't know if it was morning or night. My cell had 24-hour bright flourescent lights and I couldn't see outside. (I love the outside, the rain, the sun, the trees, but I could see none of it.)
Brenda: 3 dinner, lunch.breakfast and a snake if you good
Mike: 3 lousy meals a day at the worst times
Will: We had three meals a day but most convicts ate a fourth meal from commissary at night.

JM: How would you rate the food? Please give details of why.
Reggie: the food is not very good and it is seems like it is just enough to survive on . I lost weight in the county jail.
Sarah: Lousy and unhealthy. I actually gained weight. My attorney said he understood it was catered, well, not from any restraurant I'd go to. He saw my hot dog. I wouldn't eat it. The meals were starchy (bread), soft (must of something or other), very low in fiber (hard to keep my bowels regular), no fresh fruit, nothing I'd eat at home. They kept taking my styrofoam cup away, so I would keep the small cardboard milk carton so I could get water out of the small spout in the wall. They would take those away too. Hard to get enough water.
Brenda: my dogs and cat got better a homeless person at a shelter got better food then we did if you had a special diet and a reaction to some food they don't care they said eat it or nothing at all which real suck at time until to talk shit to them
Mike: 0 out of 10, the way they prepare the food makes the dishes covered in steam water so everything is wet. ever had a cookie break apart in your hands? i sometimes would talk to people about the food they would tell me it reminded them of work camp materiel
Will: I would rate the food 8/10 actually. At Duplin we had a real kitchen that I worked in and while the food was about average, the portions were reasonable. This stood in stark contrast to Wake County jail where you were fed from a private catering company that brought us trays from a truck 3 times daily and all toll was about 1500 calories. I lost 30 pounds in wake county jail in about 6 weeks.

JM: Did you have any favorite/least favorite meals?
Reggie: I liked the mixture of beans and rice with cornbread. It wasn't that great, but it was better than most meals.
Sarah: Least favorite: anything with meat, couldn't tell what it was. Most favorite: corn bread.
Brenda: no only when the church people bought us food or snakes or we git commas y if you had money on you book
Mike: no favorites at all no least favorites all taste like rubber it was a shame on a plate. every meal reminds you the days are dark
Will: Chicken Day. Once each month we got a half a chicken, fried. It was not KFC quality but still good and if you didn't like it, you could sell it on the yard for a dollar all day long.

JM: Were there any other snacks offered outside of meals? What was commissary like and how expensive was it?
Reggie: You had to buy whatever snacks that you received. Once a week you signed up for commissary if you had money in your account.
Sarah: No. There is supposed to be a "commesary" or something for snacks available once a week. I had money in my account from my purse, but I couldn't get anything. They kept changing stories about when it was available. The nurse who brought me Aleve for my arthristic at 8am and 8pm told the guard I needed something to eat with it, to get me something from the commesary. Meals were too much earlier, between 4-6 o'clock (am or pm). The Aleve was burning a hole in my stomach. The guard told the nurse I could not have anything.
Brenda: $10 all you got was c 20oz coke and a bag of chips body wash 4.50 wow comb 2.50 toothbrush and paste 2.50 paper and pens 4.50 stamps 10.00 for 5 stamp lotion 5.00 clothes sock tennis shirt 12.00
Mike: yes , typical gas station snacks, but over priced. i hear prisons cheaper by a whole lot. maybe its cause they know you are going to be there and they are stuck with you. jail is like purgatory
Will: Commissary was reasonably priced and had lots of soda, candy, chips and the like. It also has stamps, and more importantly things like small ibuprofen packets, allergy pills as well as toiletries and things like playing cards as long as it was in stock.

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