Interview with Nicole, Toby, Donald, Manuel, Jimmie, Jack, David, Rhonda, Paul, Mike, Leo and Liz
JM: How many meals did you get per day? Nicole: 3 Toby: Variable.. never can really tell but most of the
time it was either 2 hots and a sack lunch or 3
hots and a cot. Donald: I got three meals a day Manuel: They served three meals a day Jimmie: three meals are served a day Jack: Lunch and breakfast and dinner David: We got three eals a day Rhonda: 3 Paul: 3 Mike: Standard three meals per day Leo: 3 Liz: We got 3 meals per day.
JM: How would you rate the food? Please give details of why. Nicole: 2 Toby: The worst of the worst. Everything is mystery
meat and everything they serve you is loaded with
starch which will fatten you up. Lots of beans..
They want you to look fat and healthy even though
they feed you like crap. Once in a while a church
or someone will donate a bunch of catfish or
something but most of that goes home with the
civilian messhall workers and we rarely ever see
anything. Even the bologna is funny looking and
smelling. Most of the food and meats are made at
other state prisons... Each prison has OSI
Oklahoma State Industries and they produce
everything from mopheads to milk. The butcher
shop also serves as a votech and the feds pay a
great deal of money for that. All the good meats
are sold to the public and given to the various
wardens. There is no such thing as steak and
potatoes in prison no matter what you've heard.
Then they sell it to each other at highly
inflated prices for crap and this is another big
accounting scam.. Donald: I got three meals a day but the food was
terrible. I couldnt eat most of it. The other
inmates where more than happy to finish my left
overs out. They loved it but I would of lost a
lot of weight if I had to stay there for a long
time. Manuel: The food is not great it is real bland not much flavor and not a
lot either so rare to get full so I would rate it as poor food
quality but eatable as I didn't want to skip it and go hungry so it
could have been worse there wasn't any choices eat or don't Jimmie: the food quality is poor it is not always hot and
not much taste at all and the same things over and
over a lot of beans and noodles, spaghetti type
dishes and small portions a lot of oatmeal for
breakfast and not the good kind no salt or pepper
and you have to have your own cup that you buy off
commissary for a drink so you may not have a cup
right away Jack: I would rate the food a 2. It was very very very
plain. They serve scalloped potatoes with every
meal and the potatoes are tremendously under
cooked. They would give you a "salad" that
consisted of a few pieces of lettuce. Almost every
morning they served grits that sucked bad. They
were lumpy and cold every morning. David: Well the food is reall really bad I mean I would not buy any
of it ever nore do I think anyone would not healthy at all alot
of reall really cheap processed starches they were feeding,as
cheap as possible its a bussiness right jail is a bussiness so
their you go Rhonda: the food sucked no flavor, cold ,and you really
never knew what you was eating. Paul: Not very good. It had no flavor at all it was all dehydrated then
water was added. The cake was the best part. There was next
to nothing to eat for big guys such as myself as the little guys
received the same portion as I did Mike: The food was awful. It all had a similar
background taste. It was provided from a company
named ARAMARK. The meals were nutrionally sound,
and the portions very similar to a hospital meal
tray. There were various food groups represented.
A main staple item were beans. Very rarely was
there any red meat given. Most of the food was
processed meaning it was frozen and thawed. Leo: horrible not enough cold all the time Liz: I would rate the food a really big 0! It had
absolutely no flavor, no flavor at all! Most of
the time the food was cold and a couple times the
food was either over or under cooked. A lot of
people did not enjoy or eat the food. Ever.
JM: Did you have any favorite/least favorite meals? Nicole: all Toby: I truly liked the coffee cake they made for
breakfast once a week. I truly hated eveything
else. The smell of the food makes a lot of guys
gag. Donald: The only thing I liked was the flavored mix they
gave us to mix with water. The foor was crappy. Manuel: My least favored was goulosh wasn't real sure what it was and
they serve a lot of beans chicken was a nice treat Jimmie: my favorite meal was the hamburgers and my least
favorite was the beans or the bologna sandwiches the
bologna always looked old and nasty Jack: My favorite meal was the gulosh or chili mac as
some people would call it. Least favorite would be
bologna sand wich David: I had no favorite or least favorit I equally hated all the food
they served come on its jail food man Rhonda: I hated all of it. Paul: They all were bad Mike: I did like their version of chicken fried steak,
it was one of the few meals with any flavor and
acutally resembled what was served. Leo: no Liz: I did not like any of the meals, I refused to eat
the food there and I ended up losing weight.
JM: Were there any other snacks offered outside of meals? What was commissary like and how expensive was it? Nicole: no. only if you got commissary or were pregnant. Toby: Extremely expensive... Poor selections.. Kefee
coffee.. I bought a burrito once for $4 and
looked at the expiration date and it was 6 months
out. Walmart had donated all of there almost
expired foods to the prison to be served in the
messhall and it all wound up being sold to us in
the commisary. Donald: I didnt have any money on my books to go to the
commissary. I think some of the snacks would of
been better if I could have got to them. It
would have taken a lot of money to go back and
back. Manuel: Yes there was a lot of stuff you could get from commissary but
it wasn't cheap a pack of ramen noodles are 45 cents when
they are only 20 cents at walmart they have coffee candy bars
cookies crackers etc Jimmie: No snacks that you did not buy off commissary
yourself there was quite a few things on the
commissary but they were more then twice the price
what you would pay at the grocery store not real
fair Jack: the only snacks offered was off commissary.
Commissary came twicw a week which was nice. They
did have a good selection of snacks through
commissary. to me the prices are way out of
control. I feel it was over priced. David: No I was never or have I ever ben offered additional snacks
while I have ben locked up n,jail that would be nice but I
would not exspect it that would just be more money out
their pocket Rhonda: Commissary was cool it had varity of things for
breakfast and other stuff. Paul: Yes. The commissary was priced ridiculously compared to the
free world. There was a catering service that provided decent
sized hot meals one time per week. There was a great
selection of over priced snacks through commissary Mike: The commissary was available. You obtain almost
immediate access as long as someone on the
outside has put money on your account. You cannot
use any money that you were arrested with. It
takes about 24 hours for someone's donation to
show up on your account. A wide variety of
overpriced junk food was available. Leo: yes ok very expensive $50 week Liz: There were no snacks offered out side of meals
unless you had money on your books for
commissary, which I did not have any money on my
books. From what I hear they have some good stuff
on commissary but its expensive.