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Jails Cut Costs With Simple Foods
By freep.com
Published: 06/22/2010

It's lunchtime at the Livonia police lockup.

Officer Dan Tar slips a warm, cellophane-wrapped cheeseburger and a small plastic container of lemonade through a shoebox-size slot in the bars of a cell holding a Farmington Hills woman accused of driving on a suspended license.

No condiments. No straw.

"It's edible," the 30-year-old, who identified herself only as Taira, said. "I expected bologna and hard bread."

If she had been arrested elsewhere in metro Detroit, her fare would have varied from a heated frozen meal in Troy to a peanut butter and jelly sandwich in Detroit.

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