While it sounds silly, COs accepting payment for doing favors for an inmate is not a good thing. That’s the kind of thing that sorta needs to be a zero tolerance policy.
True, but why are we making food contraband in the first place? That seems incredibly unnecessary
It probably has to do with the inability/expense of the facility to be able to properly secure outside food against other more serious kinds of contraband.
Because inmates get super creative with smuggling in drugs and weapons.
A hyperbolic example is the king of the hill episode where Peggy gets conned into smuggling cocaine into prison.
When my kids were little, I went with them on a group tour of the police station. Hopefully the jail part of the tour was intended to be a “scared straight” experience because they really succeeded in making it dehumanizing.
For food, they said they would take money from your possessions to buy McDonald’s. No choice of what food, no choice of better food, no choice of when. And you get your meal whether you eat it or not.
Whataburger seems like a huge step up, plus if you’re stealing my money, giving me a choice doesn’t seem out of line
For food, they said they would take money from your possessions to buy McDonald’s. No choice of what food, no choice of better food, no choice of when.
This is hilarious, I feel like there are better ways to show kids the horrors of imprisonment than telling them “you don’t get to pick your value meal.”
But if the deputy had shot and murdered the inmate instead he would have been given a paid vacation, and probably a raise.
And we definitely wouldn’t see his name and face plastered in the news.
