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| Cost of jail food dependent on population |
| By galesburg.com- Antwon R. Martin |
| Published: 08/03/2015 |
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GALESBURG — When Knox County Sheriff Dave Clague signed on as a Galesburg police officer in 1974, the county jail was a radically different place. The Old Jail, now used for classroom and office space on Knox College campus, could house about a dozen inmates along with the sheriff, who lived at the jail with his family. Whereas today’s meals are provided to inmates by a contracted food management service, in those days food was cooked and served by the sheriff’s wife, a paid matron of the county. Today’s inmates may not have the same home-cooked meals they had prior to 1976 when the jail moved to the newly constructed Public Safety Building — or the current site of the jail at 142 S. Kellogg St. — but they’re fed well enough that deputies regularly eat the same jail food as inmates. Knox County inmates receive a cold breakfast, and hot meals for lunch and dinner every day, jail Chief of Operations Brad Abernathy said. Based on Illinois Department of Corrections standards, only one of each inmates’ thee meals is required to be hot. Read More. |
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