PETA ASKS STATE PRISON COMMISSIONER TO CHUCK MEAT PRIVILEGES FOR INMATES Group Says a Vegetarian Diet Can Reduce Violence, Save Funds, Keep Inmate Health Costs Down, Reduce Recidivism For Immediate Release: February 14, 2003Contact: Joe Haptas 757-622-7382PETA has sent a letter to Glenn S. Goord, commissioner of the Department of Correctional Services in Albany, giving him four good reasons to stop serving meat and other animal products to inmates and to place the entire prison population on a vegetarian diet. PETA points out that instituting such a measure would do the following:* save taxpayers money, because vegetarian foods are cheaper...