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Meals

Interview with Reggie and Sarah

JM: How many meals did you get per day?
Reggie: 3
Sarah: (3) meals. Breakfast would be anywhere from 4 am to 8 am, lunch don't know, and supper, well I lost track of time and sometimes didn't know if it was morning or night. My cell had 24-hour bright flourescent lights and I couldn't see outside. (I love the outside, the rain, the sun, the trees, but I could see none of it.)

JM: How would you rate the food? Please give details of why.
Reggie: the food is not very good and it is seems like it is just enough to survive on . I lost weight in the county jail.
Sarah: Lousy and unhealthy. I actually gained weight. My attorney said he understood it was catered, well, not from any restraurant I'd go to. He saw my hot dog. I wouldn't eat it. The meals were starchy (bread), soft (must of something or other), very low in fiber (hard to keep my bowels regular), no fresh fruit, nothing I'd eat at home. They kept taking my styrofoam cup away, so I would keep the small cardboard milk carton so I could get water out of the small spout in the wall. They would take those away too. Hard to get enough water.

JM: Did you have any favorite/least favorite meals?
Reggie: I liked the mixture of beans and rice with cornbread. It wasn't that great, but it was better than most meals.
Sarah: Least favorite: anything with meat, couldn't tell what it was. Most favorite: corn bread.

JM: Were there any other snacks offered outside of meals? What was commissary like and how expensive was it?
Reggie: You had to buy whatever snacks that you received. Once a week you signed up for commissary if you had money in your account.
Sarah: No. There is supposed to be a "commesary" or something for snacks available once a week. I had money in my account from my purse, but I couldn't get anything. They kept changing stories about when it was available. The nurse who brought me Aleve for my arthristic at 8am and 8pm told the guard I needed something to eat with it, to get me something from the commesary. Meals were too much earlier, between 4-6 o'clock (am or pm). The Aleve was burning a hole in my stomach. The guard told the nurse I could not have anything.

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