This originally aired on The Final Straw radio show.
I’ve been locked up for twenty three years roughly. I’ve eaten more than 25,000 consecutive meals in state custody, and that means I’ve likely developed an immunity to just about every food-borne pathogen known to humans -bacterial, fungal, viral… you name it. Considering everything my digestive tract has been exposed to, I could probably eat machine parts and lead paint with a side order of radioactive isotopes, and I’d end up pooping out a tiny x-ray machine.
Whenever people write to me, the two most popular topics for inquiry are prison rape and prison food. Free world people seem concerned most about what’s getting shoved into either end of human captives. Let’s talk about the food.
In 23 years, I’ve witnessed the evolution of prison food delivery. With each successive “improvement” the food situation has gotten markedly worse. I can foresee a scenario where, if food service improves much more, all 50,000 of us Ohio captives could die of malnutrition, or food poisoning before the end of the next contract cycle… and thats coming from the guy who could snack on radioactive isotopes. Cesium 137, please mustard, hold the relish. Continue reading →