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| Complaints mar Aramark Correctional Services' track record across the country |
| By santamariasun.com-Camillia Lanham |
| Published: 02/06/2014 |
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Complaints about the grub served by Aramark Correctional Services aren’t unique to what’s being cooked up in the Santa Barbara County Jail. They are comparable to comments made about the company’s brand of jail food in other areas of the country, too. In a basic Internet search, California, New Jersey, Michigan, Florida, Ohio, and Kentucky popped up as states in which issues with Aramark Correctional Services have made the news. Those issues resulted in the audits of state contracts with Aramark in Ohio, Florida, and Kentucky; reports of a hunger strike at Bayside State Prison in New Jersey; and, of course, the hunger strike that took place last year in the Santa Barbara County Jail. A recently released Santa Barbara County grand jury report proclaims that the jail food meets standards for portion size and daily caloric intake, but community members such as Patricia McNally aren’t convinced. “Having grand jury members sample one inmate dinner meal doesn’t mean that the million-plus meals Aramark served to inmates this year can be considered representative of that meal or vice versa,” McNally wrote in an email to the Sun. “If you want to make predictions about mass production, you need to have something related to mass production.” The grand jury’s report does state that one random meal at the jail was sampled as part of the investigation. Read More. |
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