The inmates in Dakota County, MN. have it soooooooo bad, my GOD! Seven days a week, 365 days a year, they get to have two bologna sandwiches, along with fruit, like an orange and cookies and chips.
That's what they get, 5 days a week, and on weekends they get two meals a day. Brunch and supper. They threw a fit claiming it was against their "rights" to have sooo many hours between meals, as breakfast was at 7, lunch at noon and brown bag supper at 4:00 p.m.
They complained that they weren't getting enough calories, probably not enough nutrition, and meals so far apart on weekends left them hungry.
There was, for the record, 11 letters of complaint, received by the Dept. of Corrections since January 2004, seven about the food.
Their meals are monitered by a dietician each year, the Dept. of Corrections said, and the Dept. of Corrections changed the time between meals on weekends, and also told the inmates that they're welcome to have cereal in the morning if they want it. They claimed they weren't aware of that.
They ( the inmates) also have access to vending machines, and weekly canteens operated by TW Vending, which offers junk food, convenience foods by store items on a form, ramen noodles, and coffee.
Dear Lord, maybe if they ( the inmates) had been out working for a living, even if it's flipping burgers, instead of holding people up at gunpoint, maybe if they had asked for help instead of stealing from someone's garage....they might have the money for better food.
Why should I feel bad if they're eating bologna for supper? When I was working for a living, I worked between 9 and 12 hour days to support my son and myself. If we ate bologna it was because we had a choice, that we'd earned!
I say LET them eat bologna! IF they're lucky it might be Oscar Meyer!!
BTW, the article, by Frederic Melo, is in the St. Paul Pioneer Press, and is far more detailed...at
http://www.twincities.com/ci_6788922?source=most_emailed