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Special religious meals increase food costs for state prisons
By newsok.com - Zeke Campfield
Published: 06/04/2012

Oklahoma - Variances by day and by facility make it difficult to quantify the impact of halal meals on the Oklahoma Department of Corrections budget.

Department spokesman Jerry Massie estimated halal meals cost three to four times more than meals served to the state's general prison population.

The department spent about $15.7 million on food last fiscal year, before it adopted its new halal menu procedures; it's projected to spend $17.3 million on food costs this fiscal year.

That's a daily food cost average of $2.39 last year and $2.61 this year, but the department is also averaging 100 more inmates per day this year, Massie said.

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