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The Huffington Post | By Shadee Ashtari Posted: 11/27/2013 5:45 pm EST
Maricopa County, Arizona, Sheriff Joe Arpaio has planned a particularly economical meal for the roughly 7,500 to 10,000 inmates in his jail system this Thanksgiving.
The meal comes in at a cost of just 56 cents per inmate, and its main entrée will be 24-cent vegetarian turkey soy casserole. Arpaio tweeted the Thanksgiving menu Wednesday morning.
Hope the inmates give thanks for this special meal being served in the jails tomorrow," Arpaio's tweet said.
The official Maricopa County Sheriffs Office website features a bio of Arpaio that touts his accomplishments in providing inmates with the cheapest meals in the U.S. by feeding inmates only twice daily, to cut the labor costs of meal delivery." Arpaio has even stopped serving them salt and pepper to save taxpayer money, according to the bio. The average meal for an inmate in a Maricopa County jail costs between 15 and 40 cents, according to the Maricopa County Sheriffs Office website.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/27/joe-arpaio-thanksgiving_n_4351729.html
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,693 posts)He could at least give them some turkey baloney.
Initech
(100,027 posts)summerschild
(725 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)Always low low prices in jail!
madinmaryland
(64,931 posts)the punishment he metes out to the inmates there. FOR THE REST OF HIS FUCKING LIFE.
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)Probably the worst cop in America, and that's saying something!
valerief
(53,235 posts)Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Oh wait, I wouldn't want to do that to Honduras
Make that Florence, Pinal County (penal colony), AZ, where incarceration is the leading industry.
flvegan
(64,403 posts)Or is it because of economics?
bluestate10
(10,942 posts)A brutal asshole is using food as a weapon and you focus on some tiny philosophical issue?
JNelson6563
(28,151 posts)flvegan
(64,403 posts)Is feeding someone on 42 cents starving them if it is nutritious?
I don't know the specifics, I just read the OP. Care to read me in on things further than "some tiny philosophical issue" FAIL?
jmowreader
(50,524 posts)Unless Arpaio got food donated to him (as he did for a particularly infamous liver-and-onions bash billed as the first zero-cost prison meal in the history of the US) he can't be feeding his charges very much.
Oh, BTW Arpaio has eliminated meat from the prison ration. Says it'll save him $100k/year. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/25/maricopa-county-jails-vegetarian_n_3991022.html