I think they shoot for 1800kcal per day but from my experience in county jail that's bullshit. More like 1600
1600? Yikes. That's like bare minimal survival. I bet the big hefty people that go in there feel quite a bit of suffering until their bodies get used to so little food.
Prison, in most countries, is intended to be vengeance. A bit of suffering is the point, unfortunately.
I'm not sure but I think that it's also to keep the prisoners slightly malnourished so they're easier to control.
yeah that's rough. Even as a non-prisoner, if I eat so few calories, I can't think clearly and I can't sleep at night.
You can buy peanut butter and ramen and such from commissary.
At a 600% markup, with your .35 per hour wages.
Yikes, a 600% markup would mean that these 16-ounce peanut butter jars would cost almost $20 each 😳
are you serious? Or are you exaggerating a little?
600% is definitely hyperbole on my part. I don't know the exact prices, but they are significantly marked up. The hourly rate is pretty accurate though.
I don’t want to read too much into this, but do you need an alibi?
Couldn't count calories, only done a couple of days in county, but the dudes in there were quite healthy.
Few days eating plain food, nothing tasty or fattening or salty, I dropped 5lbs. off my gut. Wasn't fat (overall) to begin with but dropped that belly fast.
Guys that had been in for a minute? Pasty white, but great skin, active and healthy looking. And no, there was nowhere to work out in the pod. Pushups and sit-ups if you like.
I attribute the nice skin to the cold. Works on my complexion, and I've read many others saying the same. OTOH, nothing much to do for fun, but the showers are hot. Might as well.
Quite an education. Taking away all but the base needs really seemed to fit those men up. No one fat, no one malnourished. No smokes, drugs, alcohol, or the aforementioned foods.
Plenty of hell in other ways, but we're talking about food.
That depends a lot on the exact prison. Because many prisons don't follow guidelines and provide less food than they are supposed to.
In theory, inmates are supposed to get between 2,400-2,700 calories a day. The actual amount might be closer to 2,000 or even below that. For a small person that might be enough to sustain themselves but bigger people will lose weight.
Unless a prisoner has money. Then they can use the commissary store to buy additional food and eat as much as they can afford.
And that's for the entire western world. Some countries are better at enforcing guidelines than others but every country has a few prisons that are run terrible.
The meals are actually planned out in quite a lot of detail. When they put out the new food guide in Canada they said it was the basis for things like prison meals, food for soldiers, etc.
As for specific calories or adjustments for specific BMI sorry don't know.
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