Prison kitchen operations reverted . Food for thought: Prison food is a public health problem Its our families who struggle to make ends meet and send us money they are the real victims that the state of Florida is taking advantage of.. As a digital subscriber to Prison Legal News, you can access full text and downloads for this and other premium content. All health care at public facilities is contracted out, at a cost of $95 million per year. We're Ben E. Keith - Delivering Quality since 1906. Trinity Services Group - Crunchbase Company Profile & Funding [See: PLN, Oct. 2017, p.59; May 2014, p.14]. The boilerplate language requiring the open . We Continue reading Home Whether you simply want . Most facilities provide access to hot water, though, so prisoners can make soup and coffee, and warm other food items. Over my 30 years of incarceration,* I have watched this phenomenon play out in Floridas prison system. Aramark | AFSC Investigate - American Friends Service Committee The problem with the privatization of anything in the prison context is that the market forces that we rely on in the rest of society dont operate in prisons. At 811marketplace.com, which services the Norfolk County Jail in Virginia, a hamburger, two slices of pizza or a Philly steak, with drink included, costs $9.00 each plus a $2.00 processing fee. Lansing The Michigan Department of Corrections will return to state-run food service operations this summer after coming to a mutual agreement with Trinity Services Group to end the partnership when the contract expires. When Aramark ended its contract with Florida in January 2009 and food services reverted to the FDOC, prison officials adopted the companys cost-cutting practices. The Results are in: Prison Legal News Reader Survey! Trinity Services Group 2.8. Another is that prisoners are limited to eating the fare provided in the dining hall (commonly called the chow hall or mess hall), or what they can buy from the commissary; they lack the food choices that most people take for granted. Everything else comes out of our pockets, including [non-cafeteria] food. When Trinitys parent company, H.I.G. The change, which would bring about 350 state workers back to correctional facility kitchens, was announced in Gov. Aramark was accused of employee misconduct and inappropriate relationships with inmates, maggot-related food incidents, and inadequate staffing. Prison food is making U.S. inmates disproportionately sick If a prisoner doesnt like the food, he cant just go somewhere else and put the company out of business., Sources: www.standard.net, www.governing.com, www.csindy.com, www.workers.org, www.thinkprogress.org.

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