Decarceration Nation (with Josh And Joel)

Josh and Joel discuss the problems with prison food. The story about the Alabama Sheriff who spent money allocated for food for his jail prisoners to buy a beach house is pretty unbelievable but 100% true. Yup, I was part of the lucky group of inmates who got to "brown bag it" for a few months at the Macomb County Jail. Hey Kool-Aid! I think it is awesome that inmates all over Michigan donate the vegetables grown in their gardens to food banks, I just think the program should be expanded to include fresh vegetables for inmates too. This is the article in the Atlantic magazine discussing the high-level of pathogens in prison food compared to food in the general population. You can find the data the Atlantic magazine discussed in this study in the American Journal of Public Health. There are lots of post-mortems on Michigan's privatization experiment. Here is one from the Metro Times. This well-researched Prison Policy Initiative article makes the long-term vs. short-term argument about the health car