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A convincing argument can be made that jail food should be pretty gross, but what it shouldn't be is rotten, maggot-infested, pulled out of the garbage, or gnawed on by rats. Unfortunately, that's exactly what it has been at times in Michigan's jails. Aramark, the company with which Oakland County and the Michigan Department of Corrections contracts for food service, seems intent on outdoing itself with each increasingly appalling headline. If you thought those maggots they served in Jackson last week were pretty gross, then check out the rotten chicken tacos they plopped on the plates in Kent County this week.

While OCJ has been spared the more gruesome issues, I still got a taste of Aramark's approach to feeding inmates during my seven-month stay in four different cellblocks, and it wasn't good. The media has been on them. Not only here, but also in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida, New Jersey, and everywhere else where mouse turds or bugs or worms are turning up in prisoners' dinners.

It's bad, very bad, and seems to be widespread.

Saw this story recently about how little food many jails now serve prisoners. Many prisoners get two small meals a day.

I toured the local country jail two years ago, and got to see them making lunch. At the time I thought that the lunch was a little light, and I assumed the dinner was going to be bigger or that it was just that lunch that days was lighter than usual, but it appears that it's always that way.

This is very similar to what I saw for lunch that day:
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I'd be hungry after eating that.

Last time I spent any amount of time in a jail, we got two "meals", and a sandwich in between. We had breakfast 1 egg, 1 slice of toast, or, a thin biscuit, bacon, or, sausage, and grits or, gravy.

Lunch was a peanut butter, or, baloney sammich.

Supper varied, but, was usually a little bigger than breakfast.

On Sundays, they switched up lunch and dinner. Breakfast, lunch (supper), and then at five, a sandwich, to hold you thirteen hours til you ate again..

One six month stretch I lost not a single pound.

Jail: I wouldn't recommend it.

Noted.

Thanks for the tip.

The food is shitty and the portions are small...