Prisoners Beef About Menu

[j.m@talk]

OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - Prisoners at a northern Oklahoma prison were locked in their cells after they beefed about a new, low fat "heart-healthy" menu by boycotting the cafeteria, officials said on Tuesday.
The prisoners remained locked up over the weekend at the Cimarron Correctional Facility, a privately run prison, because they objected to meals that take ground beef out of some dishes and replace it with lower fat ground turkey, said Linda Hurst, the prison's programs manager.

"As a precautionary measure, we locked them down to investigate if there was anything more serious than a boycott," Hurst said.

Hurst said the situation at the prison was not volatile and prisoners returned to the cafeteria on Monday.

The typical dinner menu may include turkey meatloaf, mashed potatoes, gravy and peas. "The meatloaf is where the heart-healthy diet comes in," she said.

Hurst said the new menus have been used for a few months in order to reduce the fat in prisoners' diets. Some of the inmates said they would rather not eat than take another bite of turkey loaf.

The Cimarron Correctional Facility, with about 900 inmates, is operated by the Corrections Corporation of America.

A spokesman for the Oklahoma prison system said it has no plans to introduce heart-healthy meals for its prisons state-wide.
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[mireland]

AH more tastey tid bits from the world of JM news....http://www.fancysplace.com/smileys/revenant.gif

[tasty danish]

we should just let them not eat if they dont want to, prisons are more crowded than cemetaries.

[Aznmask]

omg.. the meal they have is probably better than my house meal..

[RayH]

Never mind any meat, polutry, or fish...I'd feed them tofu!

[leprechaun_40]

turkey burger=barf :mad:

[FrnchDp]

So they want beef huh?? Well, I know of this place in Washington state where the beef is REEEAAAL cheap at the moment!!!

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:D

[tantone]

Who the hell are they to complain about anything???

They're lucky America treats their prisoners as well as they do, and that people like ACLU are always complaining about someone not being treated fairly.

If prisoners had conditions as bad as our troops in Iraq, there'd be widespread uproar.

I say screw 'em and make them eat 3 MRE's a day. BOYCOTT THAT...CONVICT!!!!!!!!!

[Imperion1]

Without the water.:D

[zybch]

Here in Australia it costs A$110 (about US$80) per day to keep an inmate. Thats one hell of a lot to spend on someone who isn't a functioning member of society.
But feeding them, turkey to cut down on their fat intake?
Why do this? So they live longer?!?! Wheres the logic in that? A huge % of prisoners go on to comit crimes again, surely we should be feeding them on bread and dripping, suet pudding and instead of water they should get the cafeine free coke (all the sugar but without the prisoners going hypo on the cefeine).
That should clog up their arteries and give them diabetes in no time.
Society would be a much nicer place.

Or perhaps they should just be supplied with water and have to go through the prison population inmate by inmate for their meat.
Kind of like in that movie 'Alive' but without the snow or the possibility of parole.

[FrnchDp]

or maybe the penitentiary system could strike a deal with McD's and other fast food places to load up the prisoners with as much fat inducing foods as they can.. you don't rarely see fat criminals - they can't run away!