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Interview with Cesar, Tom, Bruce and Jon

JM: How many meals did you get per day?
Cesar: 3 per day
Tom: THREE
Bruce: we got three meals per day
Jon: 3 small meals breakfast served at 7 lunch at 11 and dinner at 5

JM: How would you rate the food? Please give details of why.
Cesar: Very bad, But you're in jail. What do we expect.
Tom: WELL SINCE I WAS HOMELESS AND ONLY EATING AT SHELTORS IT WAS A STEP UP FROM THAT, FOOD WAS ALWAYS GOOD.
Bruce: not bad but not real good either, they keep you under two thousand calories a day diet and its all mushie, like shepards pie, spagetti, chilli and rice and that kinda stuff for diner, lunch is a sandwich and a fruit, apple, bananna, or orange and small milk, except on weekends it a sandwich and a cup of soup no fruit and no milk, and the sandwiches are one piece of bologna on soggy bread with a little dab of mustard and and a dab of mayo. you never really get enough and are always hungry even after you eat and never get a solid meal like meat
Jon: I would rate the food incredibly horrible and a complete waste of tax payer dollars and not a healthy meal for the inmates to survive off. The portion sizes were always incredibly small and I feel that Elementary School Lunches are bigger so it seems that the inmates are not given a healthy and nutritional meal.

JM: Did you have any favorite/least favorite meals?
Cesar: The meals where the same for breakfast everyday and lunch was just a sandwich. Dinner was the only thing that changed. Very small portions.
Tom: I WAS ALWAYS THANKFUL FOR THE FOOD THAT WE RECEIVED IN THE SPOKANE COUNTY JAIL.
Bruce: didn't really have any least favorite meals, didn't really have any favorite ones either, i;ve always been a good eater
Jon: I did not like any of the meals since they all gave me indigestion and since I had no money on my books I could not purchase anything to calm my stomach and the nurse would not prescribe me tums.

JM: Were there any other snacks offered outside of meals? What was commissary like and how expensive was it?
Cesar: No.
Tom: COMMISARY
Bruce: commissary is a weekly thing you can order it every week, and it's not really expensive you can get cookies and top ramine, coffee and candy and donuts soap ,shampoo,toothpaste a coffee cup, a bowl, a soap dish deoderant, and so forth, i usually get soap and a dish deoderant and tooth paste and maybe a jar of coffee a month and that about it i dont ask a lot of people to send me money because twenty bucks a week is a lot for most of the people i know
Jon: There was a commissary list but the prices were super steep and you had a limit of how much you were allowed to spend and you could not share commissary so if you were poor and had no one on the outside who was helping you then you werent going to get extra food.

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