Starting January 1st, 2012, Governor Pritzker is cutting the IDOC prisoner dietary budget by 2% statewide. Another cut to our already depleted dietary budget.
We get no real potatoes here. Only dehydrated potato slices after the instant potato mix has been made from them.
We get cooked cabbage and carrots daily.
Then forty percent of the prisoner dietary budget is used by the dietary manager to buy special no-soy meat to feed to the staff. Remember, the staff kitchen has no dietary budget. They are required by law to eat the same meals fed to the prisoner population daily.
So one must ponder this question: if the soy-based diet is so good for the prisoners then why is the dietary manager buying no-soy meals to feed to staff?
Why is the prisoner dietary budget being used to buy real-meat meals to feed to staff?
Is this not a misappropriation of state dietary funds?
Now you see why a man needs access to the commissary weekly. Dietary budget cuts and money taken to buy staff special food is getting us fed garbage daily. No fish for omega 3 & 6 oils for the brain. No animal fat for the joints and body to function correctly. Yes we get commissary once a month at best, and are limited in how much was can spend.
We are starving here.
