Prison Society has released a report saying the food provided to inmates leaves them hungry and malnourished.
“People think that you commit a crime so you get what you get. But my sentence was not death. And even it it was, it was not death by starvation or malnourishment,” said Ivy Johnson, a former inmate.
After analyzing the Department of Correction’s master menus for a year, Prison Society Executive Director Claire Shubik-Richards called the culinary nightmare faced by about 39,000 inmates in the state’s 24 prisons “nutritional neglect.”“I can tell you that in 2023 and 2024 there were simply not enough calories and what calories there were relied on starchy filler,” Shubik-Richards said.
The availability of fresh fruits and vegetables declined, and she stopped being able to identify the food by its smell.
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