Why Prison Food Is Worse Than You Think

Would you eat glowing mashed potatoes or meat that smells like fish?! For many prisoners, it’s not a choice but an only option! From sus meatballs to maggot infested beans, the meals served to inmates are infamous for all the wrong reasons. Watch now to find out how bad it really is!

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[TheInfographicsShow]

Prison food is like a bad relationship, cold, flavorless, and leaves you questioning your life choices. What’s the worst meal you’ve ever had?

[jonathanchow-zkjy]

Giving inmates rotten food for 7 years until their release is going to make them so hateful that they might even be a even worst danger to society after their rehabilitation term has concluded.

[RROR]

I've done time in prison a few years ago and I had kitchen duty, I'm still wondering why the chicken boxes are labeled not for human consumption. Wtf?😱

[abc-coleaks-info]

My prospective if I may. I worked in the system for 23-years. The first 10-years the food was provided, prepared and served by the inmates with staff supervision. The food was the same ingredients issued to the military. And we had an obesity problem in our population because, for obvious reasons inmates are discouraged from running as an exercise. The latter half of my service, the state contracted the work of private food service companies. It was garbage and would have been worse but for a few mitigating factors, if there was an issue with the meals whether in prep or service, the inmates would not serve it. Makes sense since they don’t want assaulted. The staff would not make them do it because we didn’t want a riot. The admin would get involved and before you knew it, “suites” were sitting down to sample the food and with them was the contractor representative. The point is, contractors make money by bidding low and then spending less. If they are allowed to take shortcuts, they will.
If the staff won’t eat the food, don’t serve it to the inmates.
Inmates have zero obligation to be honest about their living conditions when lying might improve them.

[Naxelar]

The food should at least be edible, at the very minimum.

[KatieDe_G]

Nothing like feeding your fellow humans "Not fit for human consumption" marked substances.

[MarziaTabibi-yz]

When I was in prison, box of turkey waste, says, for institutional use only, not for human consumption

[dev]

Prison has to punish criminals period. However the punishment has to be fair, if you set a fair punishment the criminal is very likelly not to reofend, because he will think that he was the only one being unfair when he commited the crime, when you are the only wrong person in your equasion you tend to change. Now if the system did you wrong, then it doesn't matter what you do because you will feel like the outcome will always be the same, like no matter what you do life is unfair. That's why I think prisoners have to have hygiene, nutrition, health, safety and basic forms of entertainment. They have to work to pay for their stay in prison, because for criminals there is absolutely no worse punishment than having to work, since this is what they try to avoid by enrolling into a life of crime most of the time. Prisoners who refuse to work will spend two days in solitary confinement, spend another day outside confinement, and if they refuse to work then two more days in confinement. Do this five times and then they get downgraded to a worse prison. What they earn working goes primarily to pay for their jailtime, any value that exceeds their living cost goes to their victims, however after a year working without refusal the prisoner gets to keep a small part of their earnings to buy things from comissary.

[barbiquearea]

I am surprised disgusting prison food is linked to high recidivism rates. You would think that if the food tasted that awful. That would deter more people from re-offending and having to endure the slop they had to eat.

[Katsnkop]

Every breakfast was corn flakes with powdered milk. At least there was a side dish of masticated hotdogs and piece of moldy white bread. It took a few months to stop having night terrors about waking up back in my cell. I was in solitary so I had it worse than some.

[grmpajoe]

I was in for a year, lost 60 lbs in first 90 days. Commissary limit was $11/month for first three months. That included your tobacco and personal hygiene stuff. They were literally starving us until the whole state rioted. The news team came in and did a story but what they showed on tv we had for dinner was about three times the amount of food they actually served us

[Carbon-lifeform]

This brings back memories of school food.

[OzarksUSA]

It says in our Constitution that no one should have cruel and unusual punishment yet there are SO many ways prisoners are punished cruely and unusually, food is one of them. I heard about one prison that had the prisoners grow their own garden and eat what they harvested. They had fresh food and prisoner violence dropped significantly. I don't know why all prisons aren't doing that! The punishment is supposed to be confinement, separation from the rest of society. They are still human beings, no matter what they did, and all humans deserve the right to nutritious food.

[davequinn]

Only been to jail, never prison. In jail i got a kitchen job and that saved me. You could get your hands on seasoning and make things off the menu. Wasnt always great but it was better, thats for sure. If ya got good at it you could sneak spices and other things back to the dorm or your cell and spice up the meals you arent in the kitchen for.

[rubigee]

Jail food is marked, “not for human consumption” & has a metallic after taste - regardless of what it is.

Apparently, prison food is better than jail food.

[nyjsackexchange]

'I'll have what P Diddly is having.. Yes, the bread loaf'

[Mart]

If a human has commited a crime against another human being - then that person should have all his human rights stripped. Prison has to be the last place a person wants to end up. It has to be the absolute worst place on earth, not some free hotel with free food and fun activities.

[MichaelBrandon]

Never had health issues. 3 months in jail, and I had to be put on blood pressure medication. Of course, the jail didn't treat me. I still have to take it. Prison/jail food is ridiculously high in sodium

[basileleby]

Man you should be a comedian I laugh through the whole show😅

[k.b]

Aint no way the Average American spends 8 a day on food... I would say more like 20 a day. this is counting the cost of groceries