Tag: food
Not All Prisoners Get Fed Daily. Here, It Depends on How Fast You Can Run.
In three decades of incarceration I’ve seen many things that are a far cry ...
SNAP Benefits Stop Amid Shutdown—and New Rules Restricting Eligibility
The federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) will not issue November benefits to the ...
Georgia Prisons Are Deadlier Than Ever. One Reason? We’re Starving.
The Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) is once again on track to surpass the ...
“Additional Meals” in Prison Seems to Mean “Even Less Food Than Before”
It used to be that Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) prisoners worked five days ...
GA Prisons to Get “Additional Meals,” a Bad Fix for the Wrong Problem
On May 7, Governor Brian Kemp (R) signed a $36.1 billion spending plan for ...
The Private Prisons Industry Is Changing What Constitutes “Food”
Prisoners in solitary confinement are often served something called Nutraloaf. Imagine taking all the ...
The Recipes I Use to De-Escalate Violence in Prison
In 2015 I was transferred to West Tennessee State Penitentiary, a prison with a ...
Drastic Commissary Price Hikes Leave Prisoners Without Food, Medicine
Nationwide, prisoners and their loved ones are reeling from exorbitant commissary price hikes that ...
Dietary Supplement? Or Drug? The Kratom Regulation Debate
Is kratom a plant (Mitragyna speciosa)—originating in Southeast Asia and long used in traditional ...
