Let Them Eat Cake : Prisoners Have a Beef With ‘the Loaf’

20/20 ^ | 9/13/2002 | John Stossel

[Destructor]

The psycho babblers that work in the Prison System should be required by Law to put on a Prison Guard's uniform and work 2 full weeks out of every month as a guard. That would go a long way toward ending some of this non-sense!

[Skwidd]

The only loaf these bastards would get from me would be the one I pinched off for them.

One thing I do like about the Islamikazes--they know just how to treat their prisoners. Swift execution, and no meals for prisoners. None. If you don't have a family on the outside that cares about you, you are SOL. And it costs less to run the prison.

[Slainte]

Oh my God! Not the loaf! No, anything but that! Please, don't feed me! Have you no heart? No conscience? I can't take another bland, nutritionally complete meal! Please, anything but the loaf...

I'm practically ballistic. My ancestors lived on potatos, cabbage and buttermilk if they could get it, and they weren't guilty of anything other than being poor and Irish.

And we have some touchy-feely advocate trying to say that this is cruel and unusual? What exactly makes it cruel and unusual? Is it the act of baking all the ingredients in a single loaf that's cruel? How absurd. If bread, carrots, potatos, cabbage and milk were fed to the inmates outside of a loaf form, would that also be cruel and unusal? Is it a particular vegetable that makes it cruel? Maybe the includion of cabbage raises the diet to level of cruel and unusual. I'm at a loss to understand.

But above all, "the loaf" is an action of last resort reserved for those inmates who are unwilling to follow the prision rules. Here's a news flash. Don't break the law, and you don't go to prision. If you are in prision, don't break the rules and you don't get "the loaf." How hard is it to figure this out?

Clearly, what's required from these inmates is an immediate hunger strike. If the loaf is truly that terrible, it shouldn't be hard to give it up to illustrate the point. Perhaps Ms. Wynn should lead the charge herself, to show her solidarity with the inmates.

There's a special place in Hell for these vapid, silly people and their advocates.