{"id":4540,"date":"2021-02-25T20:37:25","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T20:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4540"},"modified":"2021-02-25T20:37:25","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T20:37:25","slug":"americas-prison-food-is-still-criminally-awful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4540","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s Prison Food Is Still Criminally Awful"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;The report, which clocks in at more than 130 pages, is based on surveys, interviews with prisoners and experts, and a review of state policies. It reveals some sobering figures. Three out of every four prison survey respondents&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/impactjustice.org\/new-report-provides-first-ever-national-examination-of-food-in-u-s-prisons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>&nbsp;they&#8217;d been served spoiled or rotting food in prison, while more than nine out of 10 prisoners surveyed said they weren&#8217;t provided with sufficient food while incarcerated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It concludes that food served to incarcerated people &#8220;and the conditions under which it is served are harmful to physical and mental health and can erode self-esteem, with immediate and long-term impacts.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report also notes the COVID-19 pandemic has made lousy prison food even worse.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s no good reason to wait to implement these and other necessary changes\u2014which can help reduce waste and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/us\/articles\/2019-11-25\/former-sheriff-sentenced-to-18-months-for-food-fraud\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fraud<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/opinion\/outlook\/article\/Essay-Serving-salads-while-serving-time-15754783.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lower recidivism rates<\/a>, and improve human rights, health, and dignity.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-reason-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"rpVTChYx8l\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2020\/12\/12\/americas-prison-food-is-still-criminally-awful\/\">America&#8217;s Prison Food Is Still Criminally Awful<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;America&#039;s Prison Food Is Still Criminally Awful&#8221; &#8212; Reason.com\" src=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2020\/12\/12\/americas-prison-food-is-still-criminally-awful\/embed\/#?secret=qclOrDFLAn#?secret=rpVTChYx8l\" data-secret=\"rpVTChYx8l\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The report, which clocks in at more than 130 pages, is based on surveys, interviews with prisoners and experts, and a review of state policies. 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Three out of every four prison survey respondents said they&#8217;d been served spoiled or rotting food in prison, while more than nine out of 10 prisoners surveyed said they weren&#8217;t provided with sufficient food while incarcerated.<\/p>\n<p>It concludes that food served to incarcerated people &#8220;and the conditions under which it is served are harmful to physical and mental health and can erode self-esteem, with immediate and long-term impacts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The report also notes the COVID-19 pandemic has made lousy prison food even worse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s no good reason to wait to implement these and other necessary changes\u2014which can help reduce waste and fraud, lower recidivism rates, and improve human rights, health, and dignity.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[284],"class_list":["post-4540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-prison"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4541,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4540\/revisions\/4541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}