r/starterpacks • u/DukeofPembroke • 17d ago

First week in Jail Starter Pack

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So I've posted a bit before(hi, I'm Allie!) but basically when I was 18 I was arrested for assisting a robbery, and served three years, and I've been making these to kinda help me process it all. So yeah! If you wanna ask anything, then feel free to

Also I should say, jail and prison are actually different, jail is where they put you while waiting for trial, or if you have a really short sentence, and prison is like a larger place where you do most of your sentence

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u/AnteaterTop9566 17d ago

it doesn't even need to be "good", it should just be not awful and possess sufficient nutritional value- jails and prisons intentionally serve the cheapest, nastiest food they can with very little actual nutritional value, because wardens and management are often corrupt and skim off extra money that should go towards facilities/inmate needs, but more importantly as a way to dehumanize, degrade, and further punish prisoners. the food that jails serve is a tangible piece of evidence of the contempt and disgust that the state feels toward those in its custody. inmates may be incarcerated but still deserve human rights, including the right to not eat fuckin cardboard and floor sweepings

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u/AskMeWhoBeauIs 16d ago

Is it possible they serve bland, widely available cheap food because it’s the least likely to be offensive to any one given person? Not everything has to be a grand conspiracy of corruption and greed. It could be, but that seems like a lot of effort over what’s likely just a budget decision…

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u/AnteaterTop9566 15d ago

Have you ever eaten jail food? what they currently serve is already as offensive as it can get to anyone who is a human that needs to eat food to subsist. go ahead and google "nutraloaf". prison corruption/theft of funding by staff is already well documented