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| A Panel of Inmates Is Testing Missouri’s Prison Snacks |
| By munchies.vice.com- Alex Swerdloff |
| Published: 02/16/2016 |
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The state of Missouri—or “The Show Me State,” as we’re sure absolutely nobody refers to it—currently has more than 30,000 inmates in its prison system. The food they eat is probably as heinous as that eaten by prisoners nationwide, but those 30,000 Missouri inmates have to eat something outside of the three standard meals provided to them by the state. Money from the snack foods that are sold to prisoners provides a near-unending source of revenue for the Missouri Department of Corrections—the agency tasked with operating the state’s prison facilities—and they are going to great lengths to make sure prisoners buy what they’re selling. Snacks are such a money-maker for the Missouri Department of Corrections that they’ve decided to set up a taste-testing panel of inmates that determines which snack foods items will be sold in prison commissaries. After all, figures released by the Corrections Department show that each of the state’s 21 prisons sold more than $1 million in snacks in 2014. Hell, some facilities, like the Farmington Correctional Center or the Northeast Correctional Center, sold $2 million in snacks and over-the-counter medicine. Read More. |
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