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Will you be doing a show to announce the winners? I’m wondering because I get so many emails saying I won something and they are all usually bullshit.
Bra first thing you ate after release??????
In Australia I spend more a day on dog food the the government spend on one human to eating in prison
I'm not sure if you will see this or not Larry, but I hope you do.
I spent more than 5 years in the state pen in Michigan. I believe you are completely correct in your assessments of prisons, guards, and the justice system in general. I want to help. I went from convict to having my life together with a family, and a bachelor's in criminal justice. I have several friends who are still guards who also support you. We all want to see prison reform. I may not have the connections you do, but I do have connections and I sincerely believe I could be beneficial to your cause. I want to help.
We should talk I worked at a prison in missouri for six months. I can prove it. A lot of there food wasn’t half bad I was a cook 2 supervisor
I was homeless at age 19-21. It was sort of my "prison" experience but without ever going to prison. They had prisoners run the rescue mission homeless shelter (like a halfway house). They got rooms and bunks upstairs while we slept on thin mats all together on a cracked floor with cockroaches crawling on you at night, no A/C or fan even in 110 degrees. Bed bugs were so big you could see them, and blood spots all over everyone's sheets in the morning. I had my share of misfortune. Thanks to Larry I definitely know I don't ever want to go to prison that's for sure. Thanks for exposing all this stuff to know what its really like and stay away from it.
All bed bugs are big enough to see, even the babies. Idk why everyone thinks bed bugs are microscopic or something lol
Sounds like my experience living in the tropics at times....you'd open a silverware drawer, see a massive unidentified bug crawlin all over it, close it back up, wait a couple minutes, open it back up & pretend you hadn't seen that lol
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They're not microscopic but they are small and very thin. They plunp up after sucking blood (cause like leaches they are vampire bugs).
@@leebarbs7176Jesus h Christ. That’s why I could never live in LA with some of the apartments and cockroach infestations I’ve seen there. I come from Wisconsin where there’s barely any bugs in the house due to the cold (even in summer it’s pretty tame most places), so going out to a place like LA where you turn on a light at night in the living room and the floor literally moves. It’s spine chilling to say the least
Hope you're doing well, Adam. Welding may be a great opportunity for you :) worth a thought
“Fuck you. Two pieces of bread.” This had me dying 😂
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They used to give us a mustard packet we were balling
They serve bread with every meal
Back in the day jail food was actually good food. From the rustic stews, chilis and sourdough bread common in 1800s jails to the home cooking in the silver bow county jail in the 80s. Seriously, I'm talking about omelettes or pancakes with bacon for breakfast, submarine sandwiches and macaroni salad for lunch, and huge bread bowls full of homemade stew with a pile of salad and real cake, with frosting and everything. And that was every Tuesday. Things changed with the industrialization of the prison system that led to for-profit prisons that would feed their inmates sawdust bread and sewer water if it was legal.
are we speaking from experience or what?
I'm going to go with that the hearty stew was made from a pile of festering fly infested hooves, claws, udders and dicks the town's stray dogs and even the town's workhouse for the poor and indigent rejected. And the delicious rustic country bread had a nice thick crust of black mold on the outside and a nice green infestation on the inside. Back in the days when they hanged people for stealing a loaf of bread, you don't think they're going to serve anything of value to those who only stole a slice of bread, now do you?
Back in the days it was a crime to be poor and unemployed. They put you into that workhouse I talked about where you worked as slave labor of sorts for little more than board. And there you were fed a minimum diet not worth mentioning. Moldy potatoes, bread and gruel. You can expect that they made sure the food in their prisons would even be far worse.
And then, another thing that should be interesting: feeding prisoners at all in prisons is a relatively recent idea. Back in the day it was the responsibility of your family to feed you while you were in prison. And they had to feed the prison staff as well, or the prisoners simply wouldn't get the food. In parts of the world this is still the case today. Just think you didn't have family. Maybe the church had a handout every other day, maybe you could catch a rat.
And I could go on how the old days weren't necessarily the better days. You could also get sentenced to a branding and getting flogged nearly to death on top of all the incarceration, fines, property forfeit and even being declared an outlaw. That last thing is where they take you to the city limits and let you loose. Because from that point forward anybody can do whatever they want with you without getting charged. People can hunt you down for sport and torture and kill you. That's when you start running but you're welcome nowhere you go. They made sure of that by branding your face and all over your body. Everybody will know you've been made an outlaw somewhere.
Good old times indeed. Just ask the wretches who colonized Australia, a continent much worse in many ways than America. These people did often as little as steal a handful of food and were expected to be grateful for the alternative of transportation to a hell of sorts instead of being whipped and hanged.
Udders and dicks. Sounds like a fun weekend.
They use to feed lobster to prisoners too. Lobster was considered poor persons food
It's not no good anymore. Those days are long gone my friend. I spent five weeks in the county jail here recently and lost 47 lbs!! In five freaking weeks. Terrible. I barely ate anything the first 3 weeks. Literally. Finally after 3 weeks I couldn't take it anymore and I started to get commissary. I started eating some of their food too. It was just a shock at first. Some of it is not so bad like hamburger helper. But the toast is like cardboard, the eggs are overcooked and rubbery, everything is cooked in massive bulk so it's just not prepared great. But you do get used to it. After 2 or 3 weeks and basically starving.
I was in a Diversion center years ago and it was mostly for people coming out of prison and being slowly put back into the real world. I saw all kinds of characters come through those doors. I had a room with 5 other guys and I hit the jackpot, because our room was the ONLY room out of about 50 rooms that it's own bathroom and shower. Everyone else had to use a community shower just like in prison.
I remember when I first got there they walked me to my room and I walked past that community shower and I was very worried that I would have to shower with everyone. As for the kitchen, we had one main Chef and the rest was inmates. We had the best food of any diversion center or prison. We had a walk in cupboard with giant cans of veggies and fruits and we had a meat freezer with frozen meats. We would have meatloaf dinners with mac n cheese, string beans and cornbread. Of all that good food the one meal that was notoriously bad was breakfast and if you worked they gave you a pack out lunch with green bologna and a couple apples. Those meals were absolutely inedible. So, i would go to work everyday at a tomato company and my mother would sneak and bring me hot wings and sub sandwiches. The fact that I kept putting on weight when the average person in this place LOST weight actually made them suspicious of me that I was receiving unauthorized food from the outside. Almost got me busted as one day one of the Sergeants came to my work and waited in a car to see if anyone was bringing me food. Luckily, on that very day my mother had an appointment and couldn't bring me anything.
Also, I would pay this guy in my room 1 dollar a day to make my bed. These guards were very serious about the way you made your beds. It had to be so tight like the military. They wanted the fold 5 inches and so tight you can bounce a quarter of it. Well, I wasn't very good at this and nearly got wrote up for it (3 write ups you go to Jackson State Prison immediately). So, this old black guy that was in my room was a Navy veteran and he made my bed so perfect that I had no problem giving a dollar in quarters to have him do it.
The part that troubles me the most here is that they would throw you back into prison over a lousy bed not being made the perfect way that a Sergeant wants it done. I'm not sure how a Judge could consciously sign off on something like that, but then not all Judges are conscious I suppose.
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I cannot thank Larry Lawton enough for his videos, I work in a men's ministry for the homeless and I'm just about the only guy here that's never been locked up. these videos help me get a better understanding of where our clients have been, what they've been through, what they're coming from, or what they're dealing with, the trauma that they have to deal with, that helps me to be a better counselor and helps me relate to these guys on a much deeper level and I have Larry Lawton to thank for that. I can tell these guys all day about how I was a homeless drug addict my entire adult life all day long but I can't truly understand what they've dealt with as ex cons and these videos really help open my eyes about the reality of the fucked up system these guys have been ground through
Funny how they got the
Bible out of school but alot of men find God in prison.
Makes me wonder if all that might have been avoided if we never removed religion from the schools in the first place
@@radioboyintj no it wouldnt. Peoples faith shouldnt be pushed on everyone in public schools, thats their own personal/family beliefs no need for it to be in school. If you want your kids to have that in their lives take them to church, send them to a faith based school etc. Religion has 0 to do with morals- everything starts at home even if/when a lot of kids naturally rebel at some point in time (and a lot of the "god" men/women find in prison, they lose as soon as they are let outta the gates
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that you are wrong.
The desinigration of society
can be proven to have begun when prayer was taken out of public school in 1960
due to the campaign
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For 60 years
DEMOCRATS
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CHURCH
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@@radioboyintj religion was never in public school at least in the last 100 years.
..u should help him get off the sauce.
I've worked with many people released from the prison system, including people close to me. Here in Victoria, Australia inmates reside in units. Where they get together (4 to 5 men) and choose the menu for the week. Food is delivered to your unit. Inmates cook their own meals, everyday food. Steak for dinner, cereal for breakfast, amazing Asian food cooked by Inmates from Asia, halal and kosher. No cafeteria style and no federal prisons here. Difference maybe because we have a much smaller prison population and less private prisons
I will say as a deputy at my small county jail, the food is generally not to die for but the spicy chicken patty days even have us asking the kitchen for some, especially so when it's a bit far from payday and don't want to pay for snacks from the deputy's canteen. That and not gonna lie some of the kitchen workers we've had could make some good stuff. If I hear "Hey CO you wanna try some?" and they're all eating the same thing I tend to trust it and I'm definitely getting myself a tray.
If you are decent and fair most of the guys will respect that. I was in county for a few months and actually saw a guard at Walmart a few months later we said hello asked each other how we were doing and moved on. You guys have hard jobs and I respect that.
I was in an inpatient program where they served the shittiest food for all meals. Mostly tasteless gruel, shitty eggs, etc. Occasionally we'd get something decent, and you could make it edible with ketchup, salt, and pepper. I met a guy there who was in prison and he said the only thing worse than that is prison food. That just sent a shutter down my spine. I was in the inpatient program for about 30 days. I couldn't imagine eating something worse for over a decade.
Hoped you enjoyed eating Alpo. That's what I got stuck with in my stay in a Massachusetts jail for three months.
Came across this video by chance. I worked as a civilian employee kitchen worker at Walpole Prison, Walpole,MA apx 48 years ago. As I recall , the cooks, guards , workers like myself and guests all ate the food. Don't remember it being horrible. Still laugh today about the work environment, but what the heck, I was a sixteen year old kid! It was nice to be able to go home at the end of the shift! - R.Ferencik
I used to work in a prison as a C.O. and we were able to eat the chow hall food for free. We never ate it. I did try it once while I was in training, and that was the first and last time I ever ate it.
I was jail adminstrator in the winkler county jail in texas sometime ago. The food for the inmates was excellent. The food was made from scratch and the cooks were. Exceptional. Everyone including staff ate the food and most gained weight. I also worked in a for profit jail. The "cooks " were private hires. The food was inedible . Words cannot describe how bad it was. Undercooked,overcooked,spoiled,, just indescribablly foul. Prior to this i was a uniformed police officer. Periodically we would be assigned to the jail. The cooks were City employees and they were very good . The food was well made and was quite good. No one had any complaints. So ypu can see the food largely depends on staff. This not to say that the ingredients are the best. They are not. Some staff cares and some does not and i think thats the. bottom line.
Really valuable insight here, great comment.
Don't get locked up if you want good food! That's the beauty of freedom!
What about the people that aren't locked up,and still can't get a decent meal.
Kitchen is the best job in the army too. When i got to my dfac in Iraq, my kotr sergeant told me my job was to "stand there and if the sergeant major or the colonel walks in, hollar at ease!". That was it. After chow hours were done(after i saw my chain of command come in), go back to your CHU.
My best friend was a CO in Arizona, and he worked in the kitchen. He said some of the boxes of meat coming in were D grade, meant for other animals consumption--not humans. OUCH, if you like good food, don't go to prison, folks...
Same with the Navy on board the ship I was on. It says in Big Black Letters not fit for human consumption
ADOC food is beyond miserable, you constantly feel sick after eating. Low nutrition and just filler.
I used to work at a cereal plant, if we burned a batch of cereal it was either sent to the dog food plant or the prison. So I don’t doubt the food is bad.
Ive been gardening and growing my own veggies since i was 9 years old. When i was in federal prison (camp) i was in VT horticulture. The biggest benefit was i had access to an endless supply of fresh fruits and veggies. That was my main hustle inside. I was slinging cilatro, tomatos, jalapenos, and leafy greens like no ones business. I actually ate really well because of that. Combine fresh veggies with a plethra of commissary items and you can actually make a good meal. I do remember seeing a box of chicken in the kitchen one day and the label said "NOT FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION" and they were feeding this crap to people. I was very picky about what i ate out of that chow hall. Id always pocket my bread and kept it in my locker. I had a stock pile of peanut butter and jelly which was my back up meal if all else failed. But again i was at a camp so we had brauts, steaks, and shimp that dudes would bring in from the outside. I even had a burger and chips n queso brought to my cell from chilis. Had burger king, chick fila, and wing stop also brought to me (i paid a pretty penny for that but it was worth it). Where theres a will theres a way.
in the intro when he says "in prison" and the beat drops 0:07, that shit cold
Thanks, Larry. Been going through a bit of a mental rut these days, but your videos help me escape it for a bit. 🙂 You stay safe, too.
Same here brother. I have a jury trial this November 4th. All w can do is try and stay positive. What's going to happen is going to happen so there's no sense worrying about it. It is what it is. Good luck to you my man. God Speed.
@@dqreps thanks, man. Good luck with the jury trial too!
Criminals deserve more. That's the problem with society. You fudged up deal with it. Sad America doesn't punish idiots further...you deserve it!
I worked at a Prison. It was a minimum security work camp and the officers at with the inmates if they could leave your post. It was hit or miss on being in date but never good quality! If you could imagine a salvage store that sold items that been rejected by other salvage stores, that was a step up in quality. Being a work camp (you had to be within 4 years of your release date and considered a trustee security level) you could work in the community. The inmates would build churches, volunteer fire stations, etc. The people of the community could take home cooked meals for the inmates and drop them off at lunchtime. Once an officer inspected the food and cleared it, the guys was so excited and appreciative! It’s an awesome program. These men built the Church I attend and did a fantastic job!
I remember going to a small county jail in Nebraska and they got our meals from the local diner , almost didnt want to leave!!
Honestly I would watch a full video on commissary if Larry thought there was enough talking material. What his routine with it was, if there were issues with it etc
Looking healthy Larry! Keep up the good work. Love watching your videos.
In Ohio, a private company named Aramark took over and everything went downhill from there. Maggots in the food, fake "turkey" patties, and oats that had "not for human consumption" on the boxes it came in. Look up Aramark maggots in food in Ohio prison, it was on the news.
my college had ARA. ARA is not good.
I'm in Ontario, Canada, and my high school had Aramark. The food wasn't too bad.
They used to give prisoners lobster cause it was so common and considered a junk food
When i was locked up in alabama state prison back in the mid 2000's, they only served chow twice on Sundays (breakfast and dinner). Co's standing at the dorm exit for chow call seeing who hadn't shaved. Any beard stubble at all and you got sent back to shave or you wouldn't eat. Glad that shits behind me.
One of the things so endearing with your first videos was how authentic they are. Now there are 100 jump cuts. Unfortunately, I can't watch with all the jump cuts. Hopefully, you will go back to being authentic Larry...what you see is what you get. That's what we love.
You don't read the comments while he talks?
if it wasn't done already, I think a video on prison life differences based on the seasons would be interesting because of the heat or cold, or extra sunlight, or if you're allowed to go outside in the yard when it's dark out.
No outside after dark ever ...
Many year's ago, 1975, at the Indiana State Farm, a medium security work prison. One day the kitchen dorm, kitchen worker's, cook's, etc. refused to go to work because they knew what was in the food, they made it, and they refused to serve it to the inmates. The guard's was stealing the meat. A meal that was supposed to include meat, they would cook the fat and grissom trimmed off the meat.. Then, all the other dorms followed suit, which resulted in a riot. Not a racial riot, but one towards the institution. The only time I seen one. They called out riot squads, the Indiana State police. They lined up across the walk, a fire engine, guards lined up with rubber bullets, then another line with tear gas, then a line with live ammunition. It took them around 12 hours to drive everybody into a dorm. Anybody that was wet, or clothes were wet, their head was shaved, and transferred to a higher security institution or the state prison. Anybody they identified thru other means was transferred or additional charges levied. Some threw stones, bricks, broom handles, anything they could get.
The food afterwards, maybe a slight improvement, for a short time. Prison food sucks. There is no other way to say it. But you will get fed three times a day. You may call it slop. You either eat it, or eat from the commissary, if you have money in your account. My suggestion, don't do by the crime if you can't do the time. Good video.
When they tell you your going to Plymouth and your pissed off when you look at the paper and realize it's the jail not the prison and you know the commissary is like 3x more expensive...
I lost it when you said there were ants in the cereal 🤣🤣. I'm glad you're not there anymore
My favorite movie is Blood In, Blood Out... "Nothing but Texas barbecue".."sorry, no tortilla" lol
So to sum it up, prisons serve the same food as public schools
Love the videos Larry. Great content 👌
Hello, I can really use some help, $allyboy23 homeless in Chicago an it’s flood warning if anyone can help it would mean a lot 🙏🏻 I do work a job just broke till payday.God bless!
I was on a ship one time, the food was so bad, I went ashore in South America to the farmers market to get my own food to cook, didn't take long to make friends with shipmates!😁
I had a friend incarcerated in Florence, AZ. He told me that on weekends they gave them one meal per day and if they needed more they had to buy their own
In the state of Washington, there isn't a breakfast call out. A breakfast boat came with dinner. Two pieces of bread, peanut butter and jelly packets, powdered drink packets, muffin, apple. Very rarely a hard boiled egg. So, if you wanted breakfast you had to go to dinner or save up your boats. One facility, the food was relatively very good because the superintendent there allocated the resources for better food. He thought better food would keep prison problems lower. Not sure what the analytics on that were. I didn't have high blood pressure and diabetes until I was exposed to three years of prison food. A person can live on just what is offered but having money for commissary is pretty important from a food standpoint.
My late nephew got out of jail once and gringed when I offered him a bologna sandwich. Said that's all he ate in the clink.
I have a story for you, in about 1973 I worked at the burger king restaurant in St Cloud Minnesota. There is a prison in that town and one day they called and wanted 100 Whopper burgers and 100 french fries made up and delivered. I was the one that did most of that and delivered the order to the front door. It never happened again and they never explained the reason for it, but at least once the inmates got some decent food :)
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Hello Larry, I meant to ask if they have a thing called “Food Loaf” in the federal system? in the county jail in Lehigh county Pennsylvania, if you throw food at a correctional officer, they will feed you food loaf for a week minimum. Food loaf is whatever they’re having for breakfast, lunch and dinner, they will stick it in a blender with a little bit of flour and feed your breakfast, lunch and dinner and that form.
That’s actually a pretty funny consequence lmao. Whether or not that’s humane is a different story.
@@pointmanenterprises9997 yes in Lehigh county jail in Allentown Pennsylvania, a lot of people in the whole thrown food on the guards and not only will they get written up in more time in the hole, they will have their food fed to them via food loaf. now this was back in 1991- 1992 when I was there
Also called nutri-loaf. That's considered cruel and unusual by other Western, "Developed" nations and is outlawed because of how bad it is.
That would constitute cruel and unusual punishment
They still do that in Cambria County PA.
A note on prison manufacturing, when I was in Navy basic training in 1999, all the uniforms we were issued were made by inmates in the Federal prison system.
When I was in Marine Corps recruit training the food was awesome!! We just had to eat in 2 minutes 😂 never been to prison but I’m sure it’s scary close!! 😂 love the videos bro!!!
So does Cold Spring Hills nursing home in Woodbury ny on Long Island
St Joseph Mo had a grocery store that donated roast beef and corn beef. Other prisons many of the bags of oats stated clearly on the box not for human consumption. Kitchen jobs sucked because you had to work 2 meals and then your day was shot. The cooks had it best and could easily bring back food.
My brother was in the Army in the early 60s. He told me the food was horrible! I joined the Air Force in 1973 anyway. The food was INCREDIBLE! I weighed a whopping 120 lbs when I went to basic training in San Antonio. Six weeks later I was 144 hard pounds!! I loved the food!!
I worked at a state mental hospital and the food all came from prison industries but i heard we were the day behind the prison. I never tried it
Prison food still beats county food where im from. Breakfast was always lit. And we had breakfast between 3:45-5:00.
I worked many kitchens through my sentences in fl doc. The food is horrible. They buy bottom end food, use 0 seasonings, and some boxes marked "not for human consumption ". Many that have done time know all about TVP.
Hey Larry, what could you tell about LAST meals for death row inmates? I always heard they could request whatever and however much they want… but I’m guessing that’s not true.. what do they ACTUALLY get to eat?🤔 just wondering, thanks!
When I read about those last meal requests it's usually something very ordinary, like burgers or KFC instead of filet mignon, Kobe steak or caviar.
Larry you are the man !!
The first time I went for 4 days for DUI(In California) I was eating Whole Foods and very very clean, I absolutely wasn't a stranger to bad food, but 4 out of the first 6 meals I almost puked in my mouth, the worst was the au graten potatoes and ham. The next time was 15 days (after sentencing), different jail, and the food was about the only thing to look forward to. I counted my time by meals, 43 total... Each meal was a checkmark and closer to getting out.
2:30. Larry paying homeage to Prodigy🔥🔥
I did 2 years in a county jail in Mass.. no letters, no visits, and no money put on my books. pre-trial inmates arent allowed to work. So when I got sentenced I was all about contacting the LT in charged of the kitchen workers. I was able to work the Breakfast and Lunch hours. long ass days, but I knew if I didnt wanna starve to death. I needed to get in that kichen. Inmates were able to cook whatever they wanted after the chow times. I made a bunch of ehhh, so so food for myself. I also smuggled sugar packets back to the pod. The canteen didnt sell real sugar.. so I sold it as a hussle..
... Speaking of Chicken day.. ours was sunday. We called it Dumpster Duck. every other lunch item was 2 pieces balonga. 2 pieces of stale hard ass bread. stale soft chips, and 2 generic oreo cookies. the meat has a weird blue tint with a green racing stripe... You put the chips in tge sandwich to trick your brain into believing the soft chips was the bread, and the hard bread was the chips...
When i was in jail i had the highest paying job there. I made a whole $5/day for 8hr days and $7/day for 12hr days
Larry knows the system.
Back in the day prisons on the East Coast of Canada served lobster so much lobster in fact the prisoners ended protesting for a more varied menu!
When I was stationed at Fort Leavenworth I worked at the USDB amd the food sucked their too. You couldn’t eat scrambled eggs without ketchup cause it was so bland and felt like chewing rubber. Unless you brought your own lunch you had to pay to eat at the chow hall if you wanted to eat. But every soldier was issued a meal card to eat at the DFAC on base or in the prison if you worked there, so a portion of your pay each month was deducted for meals.
In Arizona State prisions Womens unit, Many Government offices have call centers where the general public calls for help with things like the DMV etc....
I worked as a C.O. In Oklahoma from 2006-08. I would eat at our chow hall lots of the time. Oklahoma prisons have a farm program and raised a lot of their own meat. With that being said it wasn’t very good. I would also eat with various inmates if they offered and I watched them prepare mine. Some of the stuff they cooked up with that commissary food was legitimately good.
We get fed in the units here in victoria Australia.. the gator brings the trian up with the food.. warm on cold.. whenever ive been in the food has been pretty good, i have eatn worse on outside..
Is it me or can I hear a smoke alarm going off in the background? Very interesting and informative video
GA DOC keeps the yard ooen all day? I did 13 years in SCDC and depending on the institution we were lockex down up to 23 hours a day. Controlled movement on the yard. Even meals in our cells a lot of times.
Man when I was on the farm in Indiana, their boxes said , “for k9 consumption only “.
Hello Larry.... since prison food portions are so regulated, how do guys stay overweight when incarcerated?
I heard about a guy that lost 57 pounds when he went to prison because he barely ate anything
Most of the joints I went to, the majority of inmates were undesignated with no job. But that was the state system, not the feds. What I find ridiculous is that some sheriff's are allowed to pocket whatever money they 'save' from the operating budget. So sheriff's in some areas are cutting the food budget in horrible ways just to line their own pockets.
Now ODR (officers diner) it is almost similar but we do get more options, such as better seasoning, Fridays my unit gives us steaks and the inmates working the ODR are usually part of the inside trustee part of the unit and don't want to lose the luxury when it comes to the rest of the unit and won't want to lose that status.
Every state is different but TDCJ does get food service right compared to other states for the most part
I ate a peanut butter sandwich, I swear the peanut butter was made of glue, thought it was gonna pull my implants. was there 3 days, ate 1apple and a bag of fruit loops. so it was just like marine chow
Way back in the day they used to feed inmates in the northeast lobsters. At the time lobsters were considered bottom feeders and yuckie. Crazy how times have changed.
11:10, don't be knocking Antoneez now! Such a legendary cereal!
I just did 8 months in Casey county jail in ky. I'm from Connecticut and have an inmate number in 6 states. The food in Casey was unbelievably good. Double cheese burgers with fries and beans bread on Sundays. Mon we'd and Fri breakfast was biscuits and gravy with sausage and bread. They had comasery every day and a lady came to every cell and sold e-cigarettes every morning
Out of curiosity, did the prison themselves refer to meals as "chow" or was it mainly inmates who used the term?
It's a dumb word but I think the staff used it as well
Few years ago on holiday got talking to an American guy who worked for that Unicor outfit. He said he was in charge of/supervised the inmates when they where in the factory/workshop.
He said that in some places inmates repair military body armour.
Told me it’s corrupt and that state officials and business people benefit from what is as you describe, slave labour. He didn’t have the job long then left.
Can’t remember the prison he worked at though.
At 7:32, the handprint on dudes jumpsuit has me dead.
You seem to be a good guy. Sorry your Life Path went a different way. Glad to see you doing good stuff..for everybody. Best of luck.
Cafeteria food. Prison food. It’s all the same.
UNICOR items, furniture and office furniture are sold exclusively to Federal Institutions. The military and all 3 letter Agencies. These Federal Agencies pay Federal prices for those items. Which means they are not cheep but we are REQUIRED to buy from them exclusively.
In Australia, jail is prison.
A remand centre in equivalent to your jail.
Maybe this is wierd, but i think jails should grow their own food. Like they do other intensive physical labor... They can plant potatoes, tomatoes,greens, peppers etc and even the owners of prisons could own a little slaughterhouse or at least chickens... For eggs ... Like food can be delicious very easily. Like good chili,stew, curries could be made with rice and homemade bread thats like naan very fluffy and mashed potatoes and gravy , and wraps and beans with turkey in it or pork broth ... Like delicious stuff can stretch
The Federal Industrial clause applies to product the institution sells, so they don't sell things private companies do.
if I never sent my man his food packages and commissary he would literally starve the horror stories regarding the food are horrific its totally undestandable how the guys lose so much weight
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Ay Larry big guy, let me tell you something G - If you think PRISON food is bad, wait til you try HOSPITAL food.
However bad you think prison food is just know that school food is a million times worse
school doesn't serve up a meatCOCK sandwich though
School food was delicious in Florida 🤘
@@MrGuardianofhades I live in Florida and I disprove of your claim
When I was in high school, I noticed that while the students would get the usual dreck, the teachers would often get a soup-and-sandwich meal instead, so I just asked for that and it was pretty decent. If you see teachers in the cafeteria, see what they are eating and ask for that.
@@Gaming2DMX sucks to be you 🤷
I've never been to prison. Did spend 13 months in jail. We did not go to any chow hall or cafeteria. Trays came to our unit. I was over 200 pounds when I went in. Came out of jail at 140 pounds. They starved me. I ate everything on all three trays. Food was horrible. Other inmates told me to drop a slip asking for more protein. I didn't bother. Horrible
When I was doing my bids in jail, 4 out of 7 breakfasts were oatmeal. Plain flavorless oatmeal so of course most of the range wouldn't touch their trays at all and myself being a bigger guy(bodybuilder) and a non picky eater I would get all the oatmeal I could handle but what I did and what surprised me that noone else did, was I'd buy a few chocolate bars each canteen to keep aside for the oatmeal breakfasts and I'd cut, say a.snickers bar, into pieces and throw them in with the hot oatmeal and man, you'd be surprised how damn good that meal was once the chocolate melted and was mixed in. Guys on my range definitely lacked the most basic creativity and it's little things like that that can change your whole meals/stay. They'd order all that shit to indulge(usually within a day then be screwed all week) but yea in jail if you think, you can really come up with some great ways around things like meals. in this jail you had endless supplies of bread so I'd also basically sandwich all meals to make it filling as most meals aren't on their own, I'd use 3 pieces and make it big Mac style, one piece of bread, load up the pasta or whatever, add a slice of bread, add more pasta, add another slice etc. It really did make a huge difference when filling up. Our meals actually weren't bad as far as taste and variety just portions were small for the average adult. Anyways yea so if u find yourself not a picky eater and use a little creativity and be mindful of what on canteen can be used for a few different things, you can eat pretty good and fill your stomach. Also I had a celly who was vegan and had a vegan tray each meal so he'd get these milk substitutes, however they contained 9 grams of protein and he didn't like them so I stocked up and between ordering protein off canteen and his milk substitute, I was able to get alot more protein than the other guys, my shelf looked like a damn GNC store lol.
Prison chow sounds like boot camp chow, very organized and stressful to get done and back to work
Where I work, we order 3-4 extra trays and I just eat the same food as the inmates. Only difference is I bring in my own salt and pepper packets cause it's almost flavorless, and I use the bubble cause padded chairs
Unicor gets around competing with private industry by storing their product be it pallet racks ,lockers ,beds,ect for 1 year making it surplus or old stock.
Hi Larry! I’m new to the channel and your videos are very educational and entertaining. I especially enjoy your movie reviews.
It was be cool to hear your thoughts on the UK movie “Starred Up.” It’s a great watch, I think you’d enjoy it. Plus it’s interesting to see the differences in international prisons vs American Ones.
Keep up the good fight for prison reform ✊🏽
In the 1200s they used to serve dominos and mcds every day. Things went down hill.
My food was TOO good. I was on suicide watch and I swear they were drugging my evening meals. I would have the most intense fever dreams, sweating all over the place, euphoria. The last night I was there, the jailer frantically came in and took my food from me after I had only had it for about 10 min... I got so high that night. The next day, he worked hard to get me out of there. He was one of the few COs that had any degree of compassion.
No one is giving any of their skills away for “free” when you consider that they get 3 meals a day, a bed, shelter, water, electricity, tv, etc.
Lol you've obviously never been locked up
@@kristiskinner8542 No. I've been in and out of state-funded agencies dealing with addiction/depression. I get the vibe of government ran facilities. I've been served jail food served by inmates in said facilities, and I know how nasty and bland it is...
Regardless, sending people to prison/jail is not free Kristi. God forbid they make inmates work for the luxuries they have while serving a life sentence for murder. Poor f*ckin baby.
As a recovering heroin addict, I’ve been lucky to have slipped past law enforcement during my active addiction.
Yup, we got a job as soon as we hit DE ( diagnostic and evaluation) where they figure out which prison they are sending you!! We also got paid 40 cents an hour , doesnt sound like much but in prison , it means store!!
Food is the definitive deterrant.
I also after 2 of those arrests had to do 3 weekends & then later 5 consecutive weekends in Pottawatamie County Jail. Which was built anew building partially funded by the feds , that are far as jails go was the shit ! SatelliteTV 170 channels on 24/7 at least in my 8 man cell block I was in. And the food was good from a nearby cafe on Hwy 75 if I remember right. In Westmoreland , KS. And they had and indoor basketball court with a 13 foot basketball goal 😅 had a library and a too hot shower. Was a much needed vacation from my dear X wife. Bich… Even told the guard upon my release on my last weekend #5 that I would come back once a month if I could do it without a charge or fine.
It is better than in assisted living
Wow…they have breakfast in the morning, lunch around noon, and dinner at about six… who knew.
Year or less / misdemeanor is usually a house of correction type of facility.
In VA doc at coffeewood they train beagles.and I know it was just a joke but it was said that when the inmates tried to feed the beagles meat rock they sniffed it and walked away.