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| Ky. Inmate Alleges Food Tampering |
| By Lexington Herald Leader |
| Published: 07/28/2003 |
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These days, even jail isn't a safe place to sit down and have a warm meal, according to a man who is whiling away his days awaiting his punishment for robbing a bank. In a federal lawsuit filed against the Fayette County jail, the city of Lexington and Kellwell Food Management -- the jail's food-service contractor -- James Ronald Hazelwood is claiming that he and other inmates have suffered mouth injuries due to the nefarious acts of unknown souls who spiked their food with 'sharp objects.' Hazelwood, a mason from Lebanon who pleaded guilty last month to the November robbery of Farmers National Bank in Perryville and is to be sentenced in September, says in his complaint that he was supping on April 18 when he bit into a sharp item -- he does not specify whether it was metal, glass, bone or something more exotic -- that cut the inside of his mouth and chipped a tooth. When the kitchen supervisor was called, Hazelwood says she exclaimed, 'Who is doing this?' -- a comment Hazelwood says referred to a jailer being similarly injured the evening before. Later, while undergoing tooth repairs at the jailhouse dentist's office, Hazelwood says another jailer told him that a female inmate had been injured by a sharp object in her food just a few days earlier. Hazelwood alleges trustees who worked in the kitchen were punished for adulterating the food. |
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