Durham's top cop asked to explain menu change
Updated: Fri Sep. 19 2008 12:29:02 PM
ctvtoronto.ca
Durham's police chief has been called before a judge to explain his new lunch menu for prisoners awaiting their day in court.
Cheese sandwiches and a can of pop are off the menu. A granola bar and a box of juice are on, under a change introduced in August.
CTV Toronto's Austin Delaney said Friday from outside the courts in Oshawa that prisoners tell him in jail, the food might not be good, but it's plentiful.
"It's not enough, I'm hungry," one prisoner told CTV Toronto.
Durham police say the sandwich and pop cost too much.
The chief has been ordered to testify at a trial. He argued the granola bar is more nutritious and filling, Delaney said.
With a report from CTV Toronto's Austin Delaney
Please Add Comments(9)
James
Poor prisoners
Perhaps don't commit a crime and would have to worrie about this
Rights for the criminals but nothing for innocent
Leslie, Toronto
I agree with you James. If you want a better lunch, perhaps you shouldn't commit a crime and end up in jail. I'm sure there are people out there who have done nothing wrong and can't afford a pop and cheese sandwich for lunch (let alone a granola bar and juice box).
M
It's better than what you get most times when you travel by plane, everything as a price! Put you guns away, put your knife away, stay out of trouble, stay out of jail and you'll eat well poor starving little muffin!
Pete Fisher
I think I'm losing it... they get fed better in the prisoners' dock than you do in a hospital..?
Steve Daly, Mississauga
Prisoners complain about the menu change... they've been locked up often enough to know that the menu has changed?
I share their outrage! They should have been locked up long enough on their previous offences that the menu change wasn't something that they would have noticed.
sk
James and Leslie, did you miss the part about the prisoners waiting for their day in trial? Remember the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty? These people haven't necessarily done anything wrong. They're not criminals yet, and they should be treated accordingly.
Colin in Ontario
I work at a jail, and I am ashamed at how well the inmates get treated and fed. Allot of senior citizens don't eat this well. The inmates get cable TV, clean clothes every day, three meals a day and a snack before bed. The inmates are becoming more violent and we as correctional officers have less resources and staff to deal with them. How long can we as a society keep codling inmates and neglecting seniors? What happened to being ashamed to be in jail?
sandy
What happened to the old stand by of bread and water!
I would be telling them to take it or leave it - I think they are lucky to be getting anything.
Jennie
These prisoners are still a human being. Just because the prisoners commit a crime(s), they should still receive nutritious food.
If you were in their shoe, wouldn't you want to be feed?
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