Interview with Jason, Kat, JM Advice, Brian, DavidP, keke, Teabag, Crystal, Edward, isaac, Lucky and Laydie
JM: How many meals did you get per day? Jason: Three, if you want to call them a meal Kat: 3 JM Advice: 3 per day. Brian: I was only there long enough for two meals. DavidP: 3 meals - breakfast, lunch and dinner. keke: one thats dinner because a bolonga sandwich
doesnt count for a meal i dont think and if you
want breakfast you have to wake up at 330 am who
does that Teabag: 3 Crystal: Not fit for a dog. Breakfast is cold (hot cereal)
or cold ceral,a 1/2 pint of skim mild, a piece of
baloney or a little scrambled egg with baloney,
two slices of bread with margarine and two packs
sugar. NO salt or spice with any meal. Lunch is
two slices slimy poor quality baloney with four
slices bread, sometimes a cookie or snack food
bag (like chips), occasoinal a tiny apple or
orange and Koolaid like artificial small drink.
Dinner is ground slop (hamburger or some other
poor quality ground meat surprise with maybe a
taco sauce or other prepared mix on it, often
mixed with shredded baloney), a few tiny bits of
lettuce with a small salad dressing pack and
carrots or carrots mixed with a piece of cabbage
or carrots mixed with beans or once a week beans
that are without spice, oil or butter and
overcooked, plus a cookie or piece of sponge cake
and two slices of bread with margarine and 1/2
pint of milk. Edward: you would get three,breakfest,lunch and dinner isaac: 3 Lucky: 3 Laydie: 3
JM: How would you rate the food? Jason: Rubage..I would not eat it.. Kat: Horrible molded food JM Advice: The meals are not anything fancy according to multiple inmate
reviews. They receive an average rating of horrible to mediocre, so
don't get looking forward to your dining experience in the jail. You
do receive three meals a day. Breakfast is served very early and you
are woken up to go eat. Lunch usually consists of a very simple
sandwich and accompanying punch-like drink. Brian: Dinner was actually not bad, they gave us chicken and rice. When
you're actually in the holding cell waiting to be sentenced, they
just give you like a bologna sandwich and a juice bottle. And if
you ask for more, they're not going to give it to you. When I
went, it was during summertime, and it was pretty hot outside.
You get one bologna sandwich, and one juice in a plastic bottle,
like a fruit punch kind of thing. DavidP: That was the worst part of the day. The food was horrendous -
almost inedible. You eat it because you're starving, and even
then, you only eat about half. It's horrendously tasty. They serve
you three meals - breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The breakfast
comes very early - roughly at 5. They wake you up and tell you
that breakfast is there - in this case, it was like grits or oatmeal
- it couldn't have been worse. There were never any good meals.
I think one time we had eggs, and it was just all water. It was
just yellow water. It's just not good quality, and the nourishment
isn't there. keke: on a scale of 1 to 10 10 being the highest 0
because its slop and we are cattle Teabag: nasty as hell.
Breakfast: always cold (Oatmeal or Grits, Bread
w/ butter if you were lucky Jelly, a small fruit
juice and a milk
Lunch: 2 Bologna sandwiches, a packet of Kool
Aid powder a 1oz bag of chips and 4 cookies.
Dinner: Milk, SLOP (consisting of Dog Food grade
meat mixed with either noodles or rice) a small
salad portion, 2 cookies, broccoli stems (never
tops. Crystal: For $1.50 per inmate per day what do you expect?
Not fit for a dog, nutriciously inadequate
promotes colon cancer from too much nitrates in
baloney and causes migraine headaches to be
worsoned due to nitrates in baloney. Inmates are
chronically dehydrated because fluid with meals
is not enough for a toddler and they may not
realize they need to drink a whole lot of water
from the fountain on their sink in the cell. The
air is dry and inmates don't push enough fluids. Edward: not good isaac: horrible Lucky: it sucks and its not enough Laydie: edible
JM: Did you have any favorite/least favorite meals? Jason: No.......All Kat: NO JM Advice: Dinner is reported as being the nicest meal, though still not much
compared to dining outside the facilities. Brian: I guess dinner. DavidP: No. At lunchtime, they throw you a bag, around 11. I mean,
literally, they throw you a plastic bag with one piece of bologna,
two pieces of bread, and one of those packets like they have at
carry-out places, like a mustard and a mayonnaise or
something. You get an orange with it, or an apple. So you get
one piece of bologna, and it's horrible at that. You make this
half-assed sandwich, and that's it. And then dinner, and that's
basically no better than anything else, and that's it. So they do
give you three. keke: hell no Teabag: It was all unfit for human consumption but ya
have to eat to keep your weight up.
I ate off of comissary (food purchased like a
store) bags of chips, tuna fish packets, sardine
packets, ramen noodles, candy. you could also
purchase ketchup, BBQ sauce, hot sauce salsa to
mask the taste of the food served. Crystal: All crap, unappealing. Baloney gets old and I
couldn't tolerate it so I lost a lot of weight. I
also have food intolerances and got a lot of
diarrhea so I ended up fasting most of the time
and became very ill. Edward: all of them were not good but i guess its not
supposed to be good. isaac: ive never eaten bolonga again Lucky: no
JM: Were there any other snacks offered outside of meals? Jason: NO Kat: Yes from Commissary -- but you have to wait
almost a week to get it after you get there. JM Advice: Snacks are available from the commissary, but are on your own
dime. They are also not usually anything substantial that could
take the place of meals and you only get one commissary
shopping opportunity per week, so use it wisely.
Some people may offer you protection in exchange for portions
of meals or entire meals - while this is obviously a personal
decision decide the costs and the benefits of bartering precious
meals for protection - you may be better off offering some type
of commissary as opposed to meals. Commissary is ordered with
money from your books which your friends or family can give
you by visiting the jail with cash. Brian: No - but inmates who had been processed and everything could
order commissary. DavidP: There's a commissary thing where people - your friends or
family or something, they put money on your account. There's a
special place where people can send a check to, and then it goes
under your name. Once a week, you're able to order anything.
That's where you get your deodorant, shampoo, you can order
underwear, socks, shoelaces, snack foods, etc. No food-foods,
but any kind of snack foods you can think of. You can order it
once a week, and you'll get it three or four days later, and that's
what you can snack on in between. That's how it goes with food. keke: hell no Teabag: no Crystal: At Cermak food commissary is not allowed.
Elsewhere the commissary has mostly junk food.
Try to get better protein than baloney by buying
and eaten tuna fish. Edward: you can get commissary if you have money on your
books.that helps alot isaac: commissary u can can get decent stuff if u work
in kitchen go to dietry real meat!!! Lucky: if you have money on your account you can buy food. Laydie: yes you had a snack shop where you could buy
snacks
Linda......well Id like to know what division this took place in, cuz if u were in a wheel chair you should have been in Cermak, which I worked in, its none of the things your saying. Also, if your in such bad shape... you must of been able to do something, if your in jail for breaking the law. Im so sorry your stay at the CCDOC was so bad, maybe now you'll think twice before coming back! I am so tired of whinny ass inmates. YOUR A CRIMINAL. You did something wrong.... if we lived in another f*ckin country, you'd really be paying for your crimes, but becuz USA is so f*cked up, and caters to criminals, is why we the USA has the highest f*ckin crime rate. I have no pity for inmates. And yes, I have had family members who were also inmates, and guess what?? I have no pity for them either. JAIL IS NOT SUPPOSED to be NICE. You get what the state says you have coming..... so many calories per day, If you went to a restaurant, had a meal, and it was awful... you would never go back to that restaurant again..... Get the point?
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Ive been to jail a couple of times, just for a couple days each time......the food is inedible, seriously....i weigh about 240 lbs and i basically just starved myself, and drank water out of the faucet for 48 hours......im sorry, but if you to jail for loitering, your life shouldnt be threatened like it is
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My theory is this, I too work in the jail, and I feel like we should do it like Sheriff Joe, PAY FOR YOUR OWN MEALS. Guilty or not, you were running w/someone in order to go to jail..... Guess you learned your lesson. And who the hell told you the jail gets 85.00 per day per inmate... YEAH. I doubt it. Do I beleive some people in the jail are innocent, ummm maybe, but how many come back 5 or more times a yr? I think someone who beats his wife/children, or drives drunk, or robs a lil old lady, should not be catered to. YOU BROKE A CRIME. Jail isnt supposed to be nice and comfy, this aint the Holiday Inn, but or administration keeps making it nicer and nicer to come back. And by the way, the breakfast's Ive been seeing, consist of, pancakes, doughnuts, etc. You dont get fruit anymore, because you make ALCOHOL, which is also illegal, but you dont get charged for that crime either. I think your 1st visit there should be horrible, so you dont come back. stay home and take care of your business, and dont be coming back. SO, no lets not make the jail nicer, lets get rid of the a**hole administration we got, and build a tent city.
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I missed the question where you asked these people just how much they paid for there 3 meals per day?? Oh wait I didnt miss it I paid for it!! Remember these meals are meant to provide the standard nutrition for the day not be someones choice for a frequent restaurant. And yes I have eaten there, buy choice mind you because I work there. Breakfast is never served at 3:30 either its more like 4:30 maybe 5:00 and the only reason for that is we have to have the courts for the day out by 6:00 am. As for lunch ak a homeless man if he/she would consider a baloney sandwich a meal. And please stop telling people that they can deliver cash to the jail all money must be sent in via money order or western union with the ID number and name of person they are sending money to.
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Perhaps you should talk to Sgt. Molevetti who told me - "We got you on one made charge so I can write anything I want and get you on another." Or Sgt. Anthony Salemi who Sgt Hernandez told me "only attacks women." Salemi came into my cell and attacked me then falsified his records and I was convicted of aggravated battery of an officer and got two years. He claimed I rammed him with my wheelchair and kicked him in the chest. The corrupt judge and prosecutor fixed the trial by preventing me from introducing evidence of innocence. I am partially paralyzed on my right side (so how can I kick an officer in the chest and propel him across a room?) I was severely dehydrated and so weak I could not stand (so how did I have the strength to do anything?) My wheelchair was broken and difficult to move and I have a congenital spinal injury that makes my arms weak (so how could I have pushed the wheelchair with any force?) Perhaps you should read the recent report on Cook County Jail by the US Attorney that documens an inmates leg being amputated because antibiotics were withheld, documents a 1/2 dozen cases of murder of inmates by the guards, documents medical neglect and unsanitary conditions and abuse of mental health patients. There will be a lot of indictments. There is NO EXCUSE to run a jail like that and to train guards to be murderous thugs who rape, beat, denigrate, and abuse inmates to the point that the staff at Cook County Jail is no better than a murderous gang.
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