I know a guy, I won’t say his name but I know this guy who did time in ten different Florida prisons over 12 years time .. including this one in Escambia County!
This guy, Crisley? according to my source is full of crap!
He’s actually doing a soft sentence at a Fed facility and it’s like being retired at a country club!
No, he doesn’t get the “elitist” type meals he is fond of but then again, taxpayers are paying for it!
Some dorms and individual “good behavior one and two man rooms” are air conditioned and you can lock uninvited “guest” out of your room.
(plus you are not likely to get killed sleeping at night like in an open dorm)
The food in most Florida prisons are derived from Florida grown stock, (cattle, hog, catfish farms .. ) and home grown veggies.
One prison, LNCI use to serve T-Bone steaks Every Friday for dinner with a tossed salad and a dessert.
(If for some reason steaks weren’t available, you got catfish and grits!)
On holidays, a meal from Mikey Dees or Burger King was not unusual!
Of course LNCI only held about 300!😁
The point is, this guy has it a whole lot better than our American homeless vets and he’s going to leave prison with a lot of money he didn’t pay taxes on like us peons!
BTW: You outta see some of the computer rooms, rec rooms and theater viewing rooms some of these “Florida Prisons” have supplied for the inmates!
My friend told me all of this!
Don’t know about the prisons but the county jail down here serves rice and pasta, neither of which really go out of date. Most cannot eat it all And pass it to those who are still hungry. And peanut butter is made on site, which also doesn’t really go out of date, and they pass out large amounts of that. Occasionally there is a leathery fried chicken breast and a gigantic peppery sausage that the whores in jail call “The Homewrecker.”
And there is a cookie in every tray. Definitely not as bad as the Hanoi Hilton treatment.
Prison grown green beans, and other veg in season, but these are often spoiled when they serve leftover ones from not being property refrigerated.
If you are lucky there might be a little piece of celery or a piece of pepper with the rice or pasta, which is served plain and dry without sauce, salt or black pepper of any kind.
Bread is donated day old white bread, again, no condiments.
Sometimes cheap cornflakes for breakfast, not with milk but with some mildly cloying, slightly sweet, transparent substance in a baggie that looks like the contents of a snow globe and tastes faintly like some kind of school glue.
No fruit that I know of, no cheese, no butter, no catfish, no lunchmeat or bologna sandwiches- Sheriff Arpaio’s fried bologna tent cities out west sound like a gourmet joint.
The idea is to keep the cost of a meal below $1.28, and simple enough for the dumbest prisoner to help prepare, as I recall. No shortage of rice and bread, you won’t go hungry or starve but normal older folks might consider killing someone to get their hands on an apple or orange or lettuce. Younger prisoners seem to yearn for ramen noodles and candy from the commissary rather than fresh fruit, probably because most come from broken homes where the food, if they had any, was processed crap just as bad.
About the only thing that can be described as palatable besides the peanut butter is the jailhouse chili made with sausage that is sometimes also served leftover like gravy for breakfast.
If you aren’t diabetic when you go in you probably will be by the time you get out.
The food is kept dull on purpose as that incentivizes the prisoners to call all their friends and family for help finance the purchase of items from the commissary, which are way overpriced. People cannot bring things from outside so prisoners become very attached to their commissary privileges, and that in turn gives the system leverage over them if they misbehave because the privileges can be withdrawn.
The state prisons are probably better as far as food goes than local county jails, but I hear some of the State prisons do not have AC and have outdoor dorms like camps. The jails at least are chilly with AC on full blast and there are no bugs or mice, but everything is concrete and hard on the legs and knees if you are older and on these surfaces 100% of the time.
They are always trying to hire staff to cook there, I see the ads a lot, but the pay is low, which along with the tight food supply budget, and prisoners assigned to assist, may explain the inept serving of spoiled food.
That said, the guy should be glad he isn’t a J6 prisoner...it would be much worse.