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Can someone explain to me how you can go to jail, and then demand that you be given organic food? I mean, people are suffering in this country, not having any food at all, and some WHITE MAN in jail gets to demand what kind of food he should get?
Is he PAYING for this food?
dont talk to me about jail my man. youre soft.
youre pulling isolated incidences (because of the thumbnails) that may or may not have to do with the pantry or neglect or who knows. IM TELLING YOU WHAT MINIMUM STANDARDS OFFERED ARE.
You’ve been addressed.diet options are given to you based on your religion or your health needs and you can change it at will BLACK or WHITE. YOU are paying for this food.
Ok Mr. "MINIMUM STANDARDS" (all caps) ...explain these "isolated incidents" to us from your high perch of knowledge and wisdom:
According to a recent study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), correctional inmates are 6.4 times more likely to suffer from a food-related illness than the general population. The report—which looked at confirmed outbreaks across the country between 1998 and 2014, and is the first update to the data in 20 years—underscores the fact that prison food is more than just a punch line, a flash point, or a gross-out gag on Orange Is the New Black. It’s a hidden public-health crisis.
The study, published in the American Journal of Public Health, found that inmates suffer from foodborne illness at a rate of 45 per 100,000 people annually, compared to only 7 per 100,000 in the general population. And 6 percent of all confirmed outbreak-related cases of foodborne illness in the United States took place in correctional institutions—significant, considering that less than 1 percent of the country’s population is incarcerated. At the same time, “desmoteric” outbreaks—the kind that occur in correctional institutions—were the country’s largest outbreaks in four of the 17 years studied. (In six other years, correctional outbreaks ranked within the top five.) Thirty-seven states reported at least one desmoteric outbreak during the same span.
Judging from news reports, you might think the main factor causing correctional outbreaks is the poor quality of the food itself. And certainly, a slew of well-publicized lawsuits have accused correctional facilities of buying and serving dodgy ingredients. In May, for instance, a class-action suit was filed against the Oregon Department of Corrections on behalf of current and former inmates, alleging that the state-run food service is so subpar it amounts to cruel and unusual punishment. In recent years, there have been news reports of inmates served rotten chicken tacos, rancid beef, and cake that had been nibbled on by rodents. Meanwhile, earlier this year, a Michigan judge dismissed a suit brought by an inmate who said he’d been repeatedly served moldy bread and spoiled hamburger meat. (According to U.S. District Judge Gordon Quist, the complaint was without merit: In his view, the Eighth Amendment does not entitle prisoners to “tasty or aesthetically pleasing” food, only to a diet that allows them to “maintain normal health.”)
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Prison Food Is Making U.S. Inmates Disproportionately Sick
Lapses in food safety have made American prisoners six times more likely to get a foodborne illness than the general population.www.theatlantic.com
But tell us more about these so called "minimum standards".