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I'm not sure if you will see this or not Larry, but I hope you do. I spent more than 5 years in the state pen in Michigan. I believe you are completely correct in your assessments of prisons, guards, and the justice system in general. I want to help. I went from convict to having my life together with a family, and a bachelor's in criminal justice. I have several friends who are still guards who also support you. We all want to see prison reform. I may not have the connections you do, but I do have connections and I sincerely believe I could be beneficial to your cause. I want to help.
Back in the day jail food was actually good food. From the rustic stews, chilis and sourdough bread common in 1800s jails to the home cooking in the silver bow county jail in the 80s. Seriously, I'm talking about omelettes or pancakes with bacon for breakfast, submarine sandwiches and macaroni salad for lunch, and huge bread bowls full of homemade stew with a pile of salad and real cake, with frosting and everything. And that was every Tuesday. Things changed with the industrialization of the prison system that led to for-profit prisons that would feed their inmates sawdust bread and sewer water if it was legal.
I'm going to go with that the hearty stew was made from a pile of festering fly infested hooves, claws, udders and dicks the town's stray dogs and even the town's workhouse for the poor and indigent rejected. And the delicious rustic country bread had a nice thick crust of black mold on the outside and a nice green infestation on the inside. Back in the days when they hanged people for stealing a loaf of bread, you don't think they're going to serve anything of value to those who only stole a slice of bread, now do you? Back in the days it was a crime to be poor and unemployed. They put you into that workhouse I talked about where you worked as slave labor of sorts for little more than board. And there you were fed a minimum diet not worth mentioning. Moldy potatoes, bread and gruel. You can expect that they made sure the food in their prisons would even be far worse. And then, another thing that should be interesting: feeding prisoners at all in prisons is a relatively recent idea. Back in the day it was the responsibility of your family to feed you while you were in prison. And they had to feed the prison staff as well, or the prisoners simply wouldn't get the food. In parts of the world this is still the case today. Just think you didn't have family. Maybe the church had a handout every other day, maybe you could catch a rat. And I could go on how the old days weren't necessarily the better days. You could also get sentenced to a branding and getting flogged nearly to death on top of all the incarceration, fines, property forfeit and even being declared an outlaw. That last thing is where they take you to the city limits and let you loose. Because from that point forward anybody can do whatever they want with you without getting charged. People can hunt you down for sport and torture and kill you. That's when you start running but you're welcome nowhere you go. They made sure of that by branding your face and all over your body. Everybody will know you've been made an outlaw somewhere. Good old times indeed. Just ask the wretches who colonized Australia, a continent much worse in many ways than America. These people did often as little as steal a handful of food and were expected to be grateful for the alternative of transportation to a hell of sorts instead of being whipped and hanged.
It's not no good anymore. Those days are long gone my friend. I spent five weeks in the county jail here recently and lost 47 lbs!! In five freaking weeks. Terrible. I barely ate anything the first 3 weeks. Literally. Finally after 3 weeks I couldn't take it anymore and I started to get commissary. I started eating some of their food too. It was just a shock at first. Some of it is not so bad like hamburger helper. But the toast is like cardboard, the eggs are overcooked and rubbery, everything is cooked in massive bulk so it's just not prepared great. But you do get used to it. After 2 or 3 weeks and basically starving.
I was homeless at age 19-21. It was sort of my "prison" experience but without ever going to prison. They had prisoners run the rescue mission homeless shelter (like a halfway house). They got rooms and bunks upstairs while we slept on thin mats all together on a cracked floor with cockroaches crawling on you at night, no A/C or fan even in 110 degrees. Bed bugs were so big you could see them, and blood spots all over everyone's sheets in the morning. I had my share of misfortune. Thanks to Larry I definitely know I don't ever want to go to prison that's for sure. Thanks for exposing all this stuff to know what its really like and stay away from it.
Sounds like my experience living in the tropics at times....you'd open a silverware drawer, see a massive unidentified bug crawlin all over it, close it back up, wait a couple minutes, open it back up & pretend you hadn't seen that lol
@@leebarbs7176Jesus h Christ. That’s why I could never live in LA with some of the apartments and cockroach infestations I’ve seen there. I come from Wisconsin where there’s barely any bugs in the house due to the cold (even in summer it’s pretty tame most places), so going out to a place like LA where you turn on a light at night in the living room and the floor literally moves. It’s spine chilling to say the least
My father was sentenced to three consecutive fifteen year to life sentences in state prison when he was barely an adult according to state law. He was always a very finicky eater. He claimed the food was so bad that he would have died of starvation if another convict had not shown him how to make a grilled cheese sandwich in his cell. He was mistakenly diagnosed with tuberculosis while in prison and was transferred to a tubercular ward in a federal prison that was shared between the state and federal governments. He claimed that the food there was dramatically better. He would have chosen to spend the remainder of his sentence there just because of the food. Unfortunately for him, a prison doctor figured out he had pneumonia rather than tuberculosis and he was transferred back to state custody. This was way back in the early 1950s. I have no idea if he was exaggerating things or by how much.
@@chonchjohnch he talks about the grilled cheese and the tissues for jerking off in..but do you remember how long he was in prison for? I feel like he never really mentioned it on the show
Thanks again Larry. I was one of those guys who used to feel, well screw you, you commit a crime you deserve what you get right? No, not that simple when dealing with human beings. Facilities around the world are filled with good people who made bad choices for whatever reason, they're still people and if you stop treating them like a human then they're gonna behave like animals. It's really short-sighted of correctional institutions to not at least give prisoners basic human dignity, most convicts are going to have to rejoin society and I'd rather have to share my world with people that haven't been dehumanised 🙏
Great channel man - I have had the honour to have employed some ex cons in my time & they have always had interesting stories to tell; they have served their time & deserve to be given the same chance as anyone else...often, however, they worked harder and longer to "prove" themselves. There is a UK business called Timpsons that recruits from prisons (ironically, a locksmith business) and the service you get from those guys is unreal. Sending you all the best from beautiful rural Portugal.
That’s because they appreciate the chance. Convicts are not bad people. May have been young and made bad choices or we, in our society, don’t give them the respect of acknowledging they did their time. Not many will hire them so, they turn to crime. Had a buddy who tried. But he didn’t even qualify for help to go back to school! 😡 So, to crime they turn frustrated. I’m not making excuses for them IS their reality. 😢
Hello, I can really use some help, $allyboy23 homeless in Chicago an it’s flood warning if anyone can help it would mean a lot 🙏🏻 I do work a job just broke till payday.God bless!
Hey Larry. I've been watching your vidoes for about 2 years now. I've unfortunately went to jail for 36 days for my first time and I understand now what you preach. I had to do 11 days in the hole for "quarantine" and the rest in population. I followed all of your rules and tips to do my best in jail. It was the most worst experience in my life honestly. I definently felt the sensory overload when I walked out of jail. I almost wanted to go back inside since my anxiety was bad being in there for that long. I can't imagine how you did your 10 years. I even had those times when I slept in my cell that when I was dreaming I felt like I wasn't there anymore. Once I woke up the overwhelming feeling came over me everytime and I was like "damn I'm in jail". It even mentally affects me now that I'm home. I still sometimes fall asleep and wake up thinking I'm in jail for that period and it's scary. The way incarceration affects you mentally is horrible. I don't ever want to go back
Good, same here, I was locked up once for 2 months and that was enough for me. Stay the F out of trouble. I did a bit better than most. I do not know how but I got along with every one. I was in top physical condition. We had competitions for exercise and I won all of the time because I was in very good shape. I only got into one fight. They guy thought he was going to bully me. I didn't hurt him. I did show him not to F with me. He knew I had him. Normally I would have beat the crap out of him once I got him but I wanted out. I got 24 hrs in the hole for pinning him but likely would have gotten 30 days if I fkd him up. I controlled my emotions. I really wanted to knock this MF silly and he would have deserved it because he was trying to run the joint. I knocked him down quite a few pegs in front of every one in the rec room.
thanks so much for the content my dad is been in jail, prison, halfway houses all my childhood (hes a drug addict) its just so cool to see someone shed light on everything that happens your awesome larru thanks for making my days 😊
You should pitch the idea of a Food Network show called "Prison Mess Rescue" where they send an undercover food critic to sample the food at a prison and then instruct the kitchen how to make it more palatable.
Bro, what prison do you think will allow an entire crew to come in, tell everyone how much the prison sucks, then get a list of things to do that will increase their expenses with literally no benefit to them? That's a terrible idea.
A while ago I was working as a dishwasher in a restaurant, and I was working with this dude who had recently been paroled. I asked him how the food was in prison and he pointed at the crud in our dish sink and said "I would rather eat that."
I was in a Diversion center years ago and it was mostly for people coming out of prison and being slowly put back into the real world. I saw all kinds of characters come through those doors. I had a room with 5 other guys and I hit the jackpot, because our room was the ONLY room out of about 50 rooms that it's own bathroom and shower. Everyone else had to use a community shower just like in prison. I remember when I first got there they walked me to my room and I walked past that community shower and I was very worried that I would have to shower with everyone. As for the kitchen, we had one main Chef and the rest was inmates. We had the best food of any diversion center or prison. We had a walk in cupboard with giant cans of veggies and fruits and we had a meat freezer with frozen meats. We would have meatloaf dinners with mac n cheese, string beans and cornbread. Of all that good food the one meal that was notoriously bad was breakfast and if you worked they gave you a pack out lunch with green bologna and a couple apples. Those meals were absolutely inedible. So, i would go to work everyday at a tomato company and my mother would sneak and bring me hot wings and sub sandwiches. The fact that I kept putting on weight when the average person in this place LOST weight actually made them suspicious of me that I was receiving unauthorized food from the outside. Almost got me busted as one day one of the Sergeants came to my work and waited in a car to see if anyone was bringing me food. Luckily, on that very day my mother had an appointment and couldn't bring me anything. Also, I would pay this guy in my room 1 dollar a day to make my bed. These guards were very serious about the way you made your beds. It had to be so tight like the military. They wanted the fold 5 inches and so tight you can bounce a quarter of it. Well, I wasn't very good at this and nearly got wrote up for it (3 write ups you go to Jackson State Prison immediately). So, this old black guy that was in my room was a Navy veteran and he made my bed so perfect that I had no problem giving a dollar in quarters to have him do it.
The part that troubles me the most here is that they would throw you back into prison over a lousy bed not being made the perfect way that a Sergeant wants it done. I'm not sure how a Judge could consciously sign off on something like that, but then not all Judges are conscious I suppose.
I had a room mate that spent two years in prison, he said they fed him "sloppy joe mix made 7 ways". Basically they'd take sloppy joe mix and pour it on top of the same thing everyday for a week. So on Mondays it would be sloppy joe mix on top of vegetables, then Tuesday sloppy joe mix on bread, etc. You got the same thing for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. He was kind of a fat dude going in but when he came out he was fit and stayed out of trouble to this day (almost 20 years later). He used to joke the food and sex was so bad it convinced him to clean up his act.
How bad is prison food? I once saw an inmate drop a veggie burger an the ground. A seagull walked over and looked at it - and walked away. Don’t even get me started on the “diet loaf.”
I'm a engineer in the USN, was doing some work in the freezebox (giant room that is basically just a huge freezer) we have boxes of food in there that's literally labeled "for inmate and military personnel only "
That's really hard to believe. I deliver to Norfolk every so often, and they will reject a load faster than any place I've ever been. They have a small kitchen in the receiving area where they actually cook samples from every load. They crack eggs and measure how high the yolks are. They fry them, boil them scramble them and generally cook them every way possible. They do this with everything. I had a load refused because the boxes did not have a strength certification stamped on them. Soooo I don't know how not fit for human food would ever be on your ship.
I've worked with many people released from the prison system, including people close to me. Here in Victoria, Australia inmates reside in units. Where they get together (4 to 5 men) and choose the menu for the week. Food is delivered to your unit. Inmates cook their own meals, everyday food. Steak for dinner, cereal for breakfast, amazing Asian food cooked by Inmates from Asia, halal and kosher. No cafeteria style and no federal prisons here. Difference maybe because we have a much smaller prison population and less private prisons
I recently watched a video that Jessica Kent did on prison food, and she said that the boxes of food they had in their kitchens were literally marked, "Not fit for human consumption." Plus, there were rats and stuff running around. Absolutely disgusting.
Yeah, Jessica was absolutely correct! my brother has worked in the kitchen both in jail and in prison and can attest to what she says; he calls the meat a mystery and has even seen scraps of paper in it.
I will say as a deputy at my small county jail, the food is generally not to die for but the spicy chicken patty days even have us asking the kitchen for some, especially so when it's a bit far from payday and don't want to pay for snacks from the deputy's canteen. That and not gonna lie some of the kitchen workers we've had could make some good stuff. If I hear "Hey CO you wanna try some?" and they're all eating the same thing I tend to trust it and I'm definitely getting myself a tray.
If you are decent and fair most of the guys will respect that. I was in county for a few months and actually saw a guard at Walmart a few months later we said hello asked each other how we were doing and moved on. You guys have hard jobs and I respect that.
I cannot thank Larry Lawton enough for his videos, I work in a men's ministry for the homeless and I'm just about the only guy here that's never been locked up. these videos help me get a better understanding of where our clients have been, what they've been through, what they're coming from, or what they're dealing with, the trauma that they have to deal with, that helps me to be a better counselor and helps me relate to these guys on a much deeper level and I have Larry Lawton to thank for that. I can tell these guys all day about how I was a homeless drug addict my entire adult life all day long but I can't truly understand what they've dealt with as ex cons and these videos really help open my eyes about the reality of the fucked up system these guys have been ground through
Funny how they got the Bible out of school but alot of men find God in prison. Makes me wonder if all that might have been avoided if we never removed religion from the schools in the first place
@@radioboyintj no it wouldnt. Peoples faith shouldnt be pushed on everyone in public schools, thats their own personal/family beliefs no need for it to be in school. If you want your kids to have that in their lives take them to church, send them to a faith based school etc. Religion has 0 to do with morals- everything starts at home even if/when a lot of kids naturally rebel at some point in time (and a lot of the "god" men/women find in prison, they lose as soon as they are let outta the gates
@@kristiskinner8542 You sound like a liberal and I can tell you outright that you are wrong. The desinigration of society can be proven to have begun when prayer was taken out of public school in 1960 due to the campaign of radical atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair. For 60 years DEMOCRATS Have advanced a social agenda To tear down the pillars of society That protected people and society from society's ills CHURCH FAMILY MARRIAGE AND MORALS ALL FOUR HAVE BEEN COMPLETELY TORN DOWN THANK YOU DEMOCRATS . .
Thank you for your vid’s, helped me get over drug abused an realize where I was heading, that I need to get out before I’m stuck in a bad place, keep up with your messages you give to people Larry you truly make a greater mark in this world than people I learn in school mid 2000s peace an love Larry
Prison food is some of the worst food you can eat! When I was in Oregon State Penitentiary they loved to feed us these turkey burger/sausage patties for breakfast and the boxes they came in said on the box in bold print “NOT FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION” I would refuse to eat them they were disgusting. OSP eventually ended up getting sued by inmates for feeding that stuff to us.
Bruh I bet some lined up for 2nds.Some don't even touch the bread whilst others eat toast all day.Give us your bread & ill give ya a smack in the mouth.Goes something like that.Lads train & keep off the bread.Give it here lad.
FWIW The dates on military food are usually inspection dates, rather than expiration dates. It's usually good (not spoiled) for at least 10 years beyond the date on the box. You'll find a lot of surplus MREs on the market with inspection dates that are in the near future or even past, but they're still ok to eat. The freeze dried stuff (like bulk ground beef) will basically last forever as long as the can is intact. It's the same stuff they sell preppers with 25-30 year shelf life. Now whether it's appetizing or not...lol
My brother was in the Marines. He had brought me some of the meals and drinks to try. They weren't all bad, mostly weird. Obviously like anything that's designed to keep long shelf life is going to have questionable ingredients. But there's a lot of junk in so much regular stuff today. It's just mainstream brands are working harder to disguise the flavor.
Detroit County jail food in the 90's was great. I mean fantastic. Kelloggs cereal with 2 hard boiled eggs and toast with real butter. Lunch and dinner were out of this world great. I had a job in the kitchen from 12-8pm , we had a gigantic salad cart with a spring lettuce mix with baby tomatoes, croutons, hard boiled eggs, imitation crabmeat, turkey, salami, ham, etc.. also ate of the same food line as the deputies. It was called the Dep line. Chicken wings with BBQ sauce and ranch dressing, rustic potatoes with fried onions and green peppers, it was unbelievably good food. I mean the food was better than you would eat on the street or at home, any day of the week. The food was so good that when I was released in 93' I was sitting at the corner bar less than half a mile from the country jail waiting on my brother to pick me up, just chilling out having a beer with a couple of older guys that were released from my pod the same day. Then all of a sudden heard a ruckus outside then a window pane from the the bar getting smashed, low and behold it was a vagrant that just got released within the hour , after doing 6 months. He was saying call the cops and take me back to jail, he stated that he never been so cleaned up and ate so good in his life and that he would live their full time if given the choice. Crazy
Came across this video by chance. I worked as a civilian employee kitchen worker at Walpole Prison, Walpole,MA apx 48 years ago. As I recall , the cooks, guards , workers like myself and guests all ate the food. Don't remember it being horrible. Still laugh today about the work environment, but what the heck, I was a sixteen year old kid! It was nice to be able to go home at the end of the shift! - R.Ferencik
Yes but see what the system is supposed to do is to reform, not use the prisoners as an example as to what’ll happen to you and keep order via intimidation
Your vids are class! Would you be able to do one on adapting to life outside of prison? maybe some things you learned in prison that you still do, like habits
This subject brings so many memories for me, but from a different perspective than yours. For more than ten years, I volunteered in state prisons (before COVID and some personal health issues- hoping to go back when I'm better) I went into nine state prisons, including maximum security; I was clergy of record for over 400, and am still clergy for many who are out now. So I've witnessed personally, and heard from guys who no longer feared talking, and have stories I'd like to share with you.
@@bierce716 ok, prison is not and never a pleasure place it's a punishment place PUNISMENT you hear me to those who do horrendous crimes like child molestation, murder in the first degree, torcher. Those Basterds should be punished so that there is justice and closure for the victims and families
Hello Larry, i enjoy your show and knowledge you give is priceless. My older brother was accused of rape by his long term girlfriend after a drunken fight(she was drunk). They arrested my brother and proceeded to not give him bail. He would go on to spend three years in detroit jails waiting for a trail as he refused to take the prosecuters deal. He recently has become very smart with the law and was able to get a judge to see how wrong it was to keep him locked up like that with no trail. He is out on tether now trying to survive. They will not allow him to work so i and family has been funding him. My brother was an electrical engineer pulling in 6 figures. He lost everything and now has a couch to sleep on at a friends house. He is still awaiting trail and its going on year 4. After seeing all this i personally believe our justice system is broken. If they can violate your rights like that when you are simply accused of something. And that’s the thing, my brother had not had sex with his gf in over two weeks as they were not getting along. No evidence of rape, only her word. No rape test was done.
I remember getting a new batch of burgers that were so bad you couldn't even give em away. Anybody who's been locked up knows what a big deal protein is so somebody turning down a free burger speaks volumes.
I did a week in a municipal jail in Houston ($1,000 unpaid tickets i forgot about from my college years). I WILL NEVER FORGET the "lunch" we were served. It was a "fish loaf", with mangled pieces of fins, bone, and cartilage. Its color was beyond description...like a combination of grey and poop brown. It was dry, and tasted like stale tuna, consistency/ texture like eating newspaper. A ROCK hard hunk of "cornbread" , so hard, my teeth couldn't break through. The drink was similar to WARM, WATERED DOWN Sprite... it made me more sad than the surrounding environment
Hello, I can really use some help, $allyboy23 homeless in Chicago an it’s flood warning if anyone can help it would mean a lot 🙏🏻 I do work a job just broke till payday.God bless!
Thanks, Larry, for the interesting and informative video. Suppose there's a model prisoner who doesn't cause any problems and may even help out in teaching other prisoners a trade or is in the library as part of a literacy project. Would a prisoner like that, who stands out for his good behavior, ever get better food as a perk? And in general, is better food ever used as an incentive for better prisoner behavior? Is slightly better food made available for any holidays?
I had a coworker who took bags of ramen one day and put...I think chips in between them? Maybe something else. I was like... "What the hell are you eating?" He told me it was something he learned in jail lol.
I used to work in a prison as a C.O. and we were able to eat the chow hall food for free. We never ate it. I did try it once while I was in training, and that was the first and last time I ever ate it.
Yeah, in Canada Two years less a day is a "Provincial Sentence." You're going to jail. "Two years plus a day" is a "Federal Sentence." You're going to prison 🍁🍁🍁 I enjoy the respect Larry uses when speaking about fellow inmates. People make mistakes. A mistake does not make you a "good or bad" person, necessarily. We're all human beings, most of us...
Hello, I can really use some help, $allyboy23 homeless in Chicago an it’s flood warning if anyone can help it would mean a lot 🙏🏻 I do work a job just broke till payday.God bless!
I was never forced to live off MREs long term, but I've used them for 5-7 days on backpacking trips. I really didn't think they were bad at all. Actually really like the jalapeno cheese and crackers. Definitely seems better than prison food.
My brother was in the royal fusiliers in Northern Ireland, I went to his barracks when I was 11 , he to took me to the mess hall for something to eat , the food was amazing and the soldiers were so awesome , not as awesome as my big brother obviously, but they were very cool , one of the best days of my life
So before I got my service dog he and the other dogs were able to go to a prison in Ohio and the well behaved inmates were able to train my dog and the other dogs for awhile. I think that is great for the dogs and inmates
There’s a growing number of prisons that allow certain inmates to have cats. I think it’s an amazing way to give people responsibility, and to give homeless animals the love they deserve
Hello, I can really use some help, $allyboy23 homeless in Chicago an it’s flood warning if anyone can help it would mean a lot 🙏🏻 I do work a job just broke till payday.God bless!
One of the guys that ran the place thought most prison riots and issues were due to bad food, resulting in said exception. Always nice to see a person in power actually understand those under them to an extent
Same here brother. I have a jury trial this November 4th. All w can do is try and stay positive. What's going to happen is going to happen so there's no sense worrying about it. It is what it is. Good luck to you my man. God Speed.
Best description came from my grandpa who did four stints. He said and I quote "It's dog shit that meets the minimum dietary nutritional legal standard required"
I was in an inpatient program where they served the shittiest food for all meals. Mostly tasteless gruel, shitty eggs, etc. Occasionally we'd get something decent, and you could make it edible with ketchup, salt, and pepper. I met a guy there who was in prison and he said the only thing worse than that is prison food. That just sent a shutter down my spine. I was in the inpatient program for about 30 days. I couldn't imagine eating something worse for over a decade.
My best friend was a CO in Arizona, and he worked in the kitchen. He said some of the boxes of meat coming in were D grade, meant for other animals consumption--not humans. OUCH, if you like good food, don't go to prison, folks...
I had those trays of food when I was in jail, but it was so unremarkable and also a long time ago, I couldn't tell you what was on those trays! Also, how does food in a state prison compare with food in a federal one?
i was in a county jail(min security) for 90 days, and we had a chow hall(the normal jail downtown didn't)... the food wasn't bad, sometimes, under whelming, other times good... every tuseday for breakfast it was biscuits and gravy, Thursday it was scrabbled eggs and hashbrowns... lunch was a baloney sandwich and soup, most common dinner was chicken and mash potatoes or spaghetti in meat sauce and when i worked in the kitchen , after dinner every Friday the work release unit and the kitchen workers got ice cream...
I love your videos and how open you are. I was up for 4 hours until 2:30am watching your videos. You are a very inspiring man and I really appreciate your stories and general advice.
My second time in jail i did 6 months in Philly jail waiting for transfer to NJ. Met a guy name Lue (still good friends) he taught me about eating in jail. He told me that by getting a job in the kitchen u get to eat prison food and C.O food.. C.O food was steaks, cheese steaks, fries, soda, like a regular restaurant man.. we didnt get that every day but ate good everyday!! We had a Chow Hall. Only catch was we had to wake up at 3am and work till 7pm.. BUT why stay all day in a dam cell all day when u can roam the jail freely?? Btw i was in wat was more like a dorm.. so man s.o to Lue for looking me out. Good man btw this was in 2018. Not long ago at all.
God bless you Larry for keeping you safe for all those years. What we see on tv and films is totally different from what you explained thanks for the insight.
At the risk of being whacked, I used to work for a company that sold food to prisons and you surely ate some of ours we did a lot of business with Feds.
I have a brother in Prison he hasn't had to do labor yet beings he has been a mentor he regrets everything sad they really don't reform anyone just pure punishment 24/7 keeping people depressed makes things worse they have nothing to live for the system needs to change.
Saw you on pka and damn was it one of the funniest and coherent episodes I've seen in a minute! I gotta tell ya you rained woody in like none other lol normally he'd be trying to shush his guests the whole time so he can talk 😂
When I was in county jail I lost 12 pounds in 10 days. The food was so bad all you could hear on hotdog days was half of the inmates throwing them up. Probably had 400 calories a day. When I got out I ate till I was sick for almost a week. I physically couldn't stop eating. Imagine the united states correctional facilities not being a human rights violation
Ive been gardening and growing my own veggies since i was 9 years old. When i was in federal prison (camp) i was in VT horticulture. The biggest benefit was i had access to an endless supply of fresh fruits and veggies. That was my main hustle inside. I was slinging cilatro, tomatos, jalapenos, and leafy greens like no ones business. I actually ate really well because of that. Combine fresh veggies with a plethra of commissary items and you can actually make a good meal. I do remember seeing a box of chicken in the kitchen one day and the label said "NOT FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION" and they were feeding this crap to people. I was very picky about what i ate out of that chow hall. Id always pocket my bread and kept it in my locker. I had a stock pile of peanut butter and jelly which was my back up meal if all else failed. But again i was at a camp so we had brauts, steaks, and shimp that dudes would bring in from the outside. I even had a burger and chips n queso brought to my cell from chilis. Had burger king, chick fila, and wing stop also brought to me (i paid a pretty penny for that but it was worth it). Where theres a will theres a way.
I was jail adminstrator in the winkler county jail in texas sometime ago. The food for the inmates was excellent. The food was made from scratch and the cooks were. Exceptional. Everyone including staff ate the food and most gained weight. I also worked in a for profit jail. The "cooks " were private hires. The food was inedible . Words cannot describe how bad it was. Undercooked,overcooked,spoiled,, just indescribablly foul. Prior to this i was a uniformed police officer. Periodically we would be assigned to the jail. The cooks were City employees and they were very good . The food was well made and was quite good. No one had any complaints. So ypu can see the food largely depends on staff. This not to say that the ingredients are the best. They are not. Some staff cares and some does not and i think thats the. bottom line.
Honestly I would watch a full video on commissary if Larry thought there was enough talking material. What his routine with it was, if there were issues with it etc
I used to work at a cereal plant, if we burned a batch of cereal it was either sent to the dog food plant or the prison. So I don’t doubt the food is bad.
I worked at a Prison. It was a minimum security work camp and the officers at with the inmates if they could leave your post. It was hit or miss on being in date but never good quality! If you could imagine a salvage store that sold items that been rejected by other salvage stores, that was a step up in quality. Being a work camp (you had to be within 4 years of your release date and considered a trustee security level) you could work in the community. The inmates would build churches, volunteer fire stations, etc. The people of the community could take home cooked meals for the inmates and drop them off at lunchtime. Once an officer inspected the food and cleared it, the guys was so excited and appreciative! It’s an awesome program. These men built the Church I attend and did a fantastic job!
This all sound very familiar to the UK system. But in the UK, a prisoner is limited to how much of thier own money they can spend on what we call canteen, you call commissary. Last time I was inside, we were allowed to spend the whole of our earnings from that previous weeks work around £9 plus £15 from our own private cash. If we hadnt spent up all of our limit the week before, we can spend the remaining the following week to a maximum value of around £50 on the canteen I think or upto £200 for outside purchases such as a pair a trainers/sneakers or a stereo but this is limited to twice a year usually depending on the prison you in.
its fucked up how even when they do train you and get you in a skilled job, like electrical or plumbing, they sell it to folks like : hey when you get out, youll have a job skill and real experience'' but when you get out, youre not getting a job ! because you have a fucking record, the worse punishment,i s when you get released ! because you cant get a job, you cant get housing, you need an address to get a job, you need a job to get housing, you are usually required to be housed and employed within a certain time upon release; you more than likely have fees and fines to pay, that is fucked up. they need to set up programs, like voc-rehab and similar adult social services, you know: supported employment programs and community support programs / agencies does for disabled: on release, you get assigned a case worker and a job coach, that helps you find a job and gets you placed in the job, and they monitor you and help get you assimilated , and they can also help you get housing that is sponsored, for ex-cons. if they did things like this, the recidivism would be less.
Thankfully the recidivism rate is low where I live because all of the factories do hire ex-cons; also, dropping these outrageous fines would help go along way since most people can’t keep up with them and end up being violated and back in prison because of them.
@@starjestis8293 i wish the us and other countries for that matter: would do things more like countries such as : Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Austria, etc. these countries have very low over all crime, low recidivism, and homelessness is very very rare, and the criminals; yes, they are punished and rightfully so, but are also actively rehabbed and rehabilitated and they are treated like living beings, and are m ore motivated to get oin the right track and do right .
Yes, I totally agree. I’m not really sure why it is so easy to forget that these offenders were people first lol. just so you know as a blind person the state isn’t all that great about helping the disabled community either lol. The whole system is broken let’s throw some duct tape on it!!!
I'd be willing to bet that thesedays I could mark yes to the "have you been convicted of a felony" question and find a job in a day. I know a lot of places I worked for in the past before the labor shortage hired felons. I've been in jail for misdemeanors where my cell mate was a convicted felon on work release working as a cook at a restaurant.
I don't know about prison, but I've been to jail many times. In Atlanta, the food was unidentifiable. In New Orleans, it was pretty much variations of beans and rice, which was pretty straightforward and filling.
Larry I've never been in jail or prison, although I've know people who have and they all hated the food. Me personally, I consider lousy food a cruel punishment. Lousy food over a long period can cause all kinds of health problems. I have even more sympathy for prisoners now because after a bad car wreck I did two months in a nursing home. The food was a nightmare, bad quality, bad preparation and delivered cold if it was supposed to hot and room temp if it was supposed to be cold. No condiments half the time and the other half it was chemical crap you couldn't call mustard or ketchup. I didn't eat half the time. And I almost choked on my coffee when you got to the baloney sandwich. Near the end my auntie was in a nursing home and she complained they got the exact sandwich you described half a dozen times a week!!
I was in a hospital for 21 days that had the most horrible food I've ever encountered. I told the nurses that people in prison would say "this sucks." I couldn't eat it. I lost a lot of weight.
Thank you for sharing Larry. I enjoy your vids. I hope you stay on the outside and not have to go back to that way of life. Good for you for being you.
I can relate to biting a piece of bone in meat, school lunches around the 2010s were terrible, I wouldn’t say as bad as prison, but it couldn’t have been any worse, I was eating a Stromboli which usually were pretty decent, but I bit down on a piece of ham bone, looked into the Stromboli and there was small pieces of bone fragments and some what I would assume would be some type blood vessel in the meat. Yeah I stopped eating ham for a long time after that, really just stopped eating school lunches in general. Would only buy a pack of trail mix from the vending machine and steal an extra pack of cereal from the breakfast service
Hey Larry, Clark County in Ohio just sent my Dad to 6 months in Prison as a part of this new "Shock Treatment". He was free when he was sentenced and was sent to CRC(Correctional Reception Center) within a week. He spent 3 months in there before being shipped out to Griff before being released to a halfway house at some point. This was for Two F5's and an F3, all non-violent although he has had an F3 Domestic Violence(3rd Domestic in Ohio is instantly a Felony) in the past.. CRC is usually horrible but they now are allowing Methadone in Ohio CRC if you were on Methadone treatment BEFORE being sent there. They hopefully have changed it to where any addict can get it but I have not heard anything. Just something interesting! Awesome vid and you have a dedicated viewer right here!
I did some time in Alabama. The food was not horrible, but not good either. The meat was really bad though, and I never ate it. Corn dog day was the best. I rarely went to breakfast, because it was called at 4:30 in the morning, but I kid you not, the pancakes was great. They had a syrup mixed with peanut butter that was really good. I only did 8 months, but I lost 60 pounds, because I rarely got anything off store or commissary, and strictly ate what they offered.
In Ohio, a private company named Aramark took over and everything went downhill from there. Maggots in the food, fake "turkey" patties, and oats that had "not for human consumption" on the boxes it came in. Look up Aramark maggots in food in Ohio prison, it was on the news.
I’ve eaten prison food, I think some of the bases I went to in the Marine Corps were worse. Sedgwick Co Kansas you can be at the jail 3-5 years those are people who will be doing DAYS “life” in prison. MRE shelf life used to be 25 years now it’s 5 years
I used to work at a facility called Abraxas. When I started we had a cook that shopped and cooked all the meals and food was great. Then Cornell corrections bought them and brought in outside food service and the food was garbage.
Question Larry, you said that you never slept in past 6am because you always had to be ready for something to happen. If you keep to yourself and try to be a quiet loner type, do you still have to be ready for something to happen to you?
I've not been in prisons but I have worked in them. Yes, you still have to be on your toes. You can't really be a loner, you have to at least try to make friends or people will take advantage of you, you are going to have to interact with other inmates. Only way you can get by with being a real loner is to stay in the hole.
if it wasn't done already, I think a video on prison life differences based on the seasons would be interesting because of the heat or cold, or extra sunlight, or if you're allowed to go outside in the yard when it's dark out.
I spent 16 hours inside a small town jail once and they fed us out of small brown paper bags. I was sure to leave that shit in my cell as soon as my bond went through.
a load of questions towards the next QNa's 1) if your new in prison and you sit say in a seat in the tv area , and a guy comes up to you saying your in my seat, what would you do? maybe tell him to sit elsewhere or just give up the seat 2) did anyone try to steal your commissary ? if so what did you do 3) what was your favourite meal and your worst meal in prison each week? 4) do you think prisons will ever be re formed ? 5) did you ever go weeks/months without rec time?
This reminds me of that "world's toughest" sheriff from Arizona (Joe Arpaio, or something like that) who bragged about how they spent more money per meal on feeding the dogs than they did on the inmates.
You're correct. Joe Arpaio or however the fuck you spell that douchebag's name was a bigwig in Maricopa County, Arizona. He treated inmates under his control like absolute dogshit, and later on got called to account for it. I'm hoping he becomes an inmate in his own county sometime soon.
He also made is inmates sleep outdoors in camps, and the jumpsuits inmates in his county wore are neon pink. His way of breaking down machismo behavior and trying to prevent violence.
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Bra first thing you ate after release??????
In Australia I spend more a day on dog food the the government spend on one human to eating in prison
I'm not sure if you will see this or not Larry, but I hope you do.
I spent more than 5 years in the state pen in Michigan. I believe you are completely correct in your assessments of prisons, guards, and the justice system in general. I want to help. I went from convict to having my life together with a family, and a bachelor's in criminal justice. I have several friends who are still guards who also support you. We all want to see prison reform. I may not have the connections you do, but I do have connections and I sincerely believe I could be beneficial to your cause. I want to help.
We should talk I worked at a prison in missouri for six months. I can prove it. A lot of there food wasn’t half bad I was a cook 2 supervisor
Back in the day jail food was actually good food. From the rustic stews, chilis and sourdough bread common in 1800s jails to the home cooking in the silver bow county jail in the 80s. Seriously, I'm talking about omelettes or pancakes with bacon for breakfast, submarine sandwiches and macaroni salad for lunch, and huge bread bowls full of homemade stew with a pile of salad and real cake, with frosting and everything. And that was every Tuesday. Things changed with the industrialization of the prison system that led to for-profit prisons that would feed their inmates sawdust bread and sewer water if it was legal.
are we speaking from experience or what?
I'm going to go with that the hearty stew was made from a pile of festering fly infested hooves, claws, udders and dicks the town's stray dogs and even the town's workhouse for the poor and indigent rejected. And the delicious rustic country bread had a nice thick crust of black mold on the outside and a nice green infestation on the inside. Back in the days when they hanged people for stealing a loaf of bread, you don't think they're going to serve anything of value to those who only stole a slice of bread, now do you?
Back in the days it was a crime to be poor and unemployed. They put you into that workhouse I talked about where you worked as slave labor of sorts for little more than board. And there you were fed a minimum diet not worth mentioning. Moldy potatoes, bread and gruel. You can expect that they made sure the food in their prisons would even be far worse.
And then, another thing that should be interesting: feeding prisoners at all in prisons is a relatively recent idea. Back in the day it was the responsibility of your family to feed you while you were in prison. And they had to feed the prison staff as well, or the prisoners simply wouldn't get the food. In parts of the world this is still the case today. Just think you didn't have family. Maybe the church had a handout every other day, maybe you could catch a rat.
And I could go on how the old days weren't necessarily the better days. You could also get sentenced to a branding and getting flogged nearly to death on top of all the incarceration, fines, property forfeit and even being declared an outlaw. That last thing is where they take you to the city limits and let you loose. Because from that point forward anybody can do whatever they want with you without getting charged. People can hunt you down for sport and torture and kill you. That's when you start running but you're welcome nowhere you go. They made sure of that by branding your face and all over your body. Everybody will know you've been made an outlaw somewhere.
Good old times indeed. Just ask the wretches who colonized Australia, a continent much worse in many ways than America. These people did often as little as steal a handful of food and were expected to be grateful for the alternative of transportation to a hell of sorts instead of being whipped and hanged.
Udders and dicks. Sounds like a fun weekend.
They use to feed lobster to prisoners too. Lobster was considered poor persons food
It's not no good anymore. Those days are long gone my friend. I spent five weeks in the county jail here recently and lost 47 lbs!! In five freaking weeks. Terrible. I barely ate anything the first 3 weeks. Literally. Finally after 3 weeks I couldn't take it anymore and I started to get commissary. I started eating some of their food too. It was just a shock at first. Some of it is not so bad like hamburger helper. But the toast is like cardboard, the eggs are overcooked and rubbery, everything is cooked in massive bulk so it's just not prepared great. But you do get used to it. After 2 or 3 weeks and basically starving.
I was homeless at age 19-21. It was sort of my "prison" experience but without ever going to prison. They had prisoners run the rescue mission homeless shelter (like a halfway house). They got rooms and bunks upstairs while we slept on thin mats all together on a cracked floor with cockroaches crawling on you at night, no A/C or fan even in 110 degrees. Bed bugs were so big you could see them, and blood spots all over everyone's sheets in the morning. I had my share of misfortune. Thanks to Larry I definitely know I don't ever want to go to prison that's for sure. Thanks for exposing all this stuff to know what its really like and stay away from it.
All bed bugs are big enough to see, even the babies. Idk why everyone thinks bed bugs are microscopic or something lol
Sounds like my experience living in the tropics at times....you'd open a silverware drawer, see a massive unidentified bug crawlin all over it, close it back up, wait a couple minutes, open it back up & pretend you hadn't seen that lol
@@Benjy86
They're not microscopic but they are small and very thin. They plunp up after sucking blood (cause like leaches they are vampire bugs).
@@leebarbs7176Jesus h Christ. That’s why I could never live in LA with some of the apartments and cockroach infestations I’ve seen there. I come from Wisconsin where there’s barely any bugs in the house due to the cold (even in summer it’s pretty tame most places), so going out to a place like LA where you turn on a light at night in the living room and the floor literally moves. It’s spine chilling to say the least
Hope you're doing well, Adam. Welding may be a great opportunity for you :) worth a thought
My father was sentenced to three consecutive fifteen year to life sentences in state prison when he was barely an adult according to state law. He was always a very finicky eater. He claimed the food was so bad that he would have died of starvation if another convict had not shown him how to make a grilled cheese sandwich in his cell.
He was mistakenly diagnosed with tuberculosis while in prison and was transferred to a tubercular ward in a federal prison that was shared between the state and federal governments. He claimed that the food there was dramatically better. He would have chosen to spend the remainder of his sentence there just because of the food. Unfortunately for him, a prison doctor figured out he had pneumonia rather than tuberculosis and he was transferred back to state custody.
This was way back in the early 1950s. I have no idea if he was exaggerating things or by how much.
Federal prisons are known for having a better quality of life.
That reminds me of Phil Leotardo from the Sopranos, on the radiator right?
did he put his p..is in it like Phil Leotardo alla the Sopranos show as a compromise for not being able to s...ew a woman?
@@chonchjohnch he talks about the grilled cheese and the tissues for jerking off in..but do you remember how long he was in prison for? I feel like he never really mentioned it on the show
Thanks again Larry.
I was one of those guys who used to feel, well screw you, you commit a crime you deserve what you get right? No, not that simple when dealing with human beings. Facilities around the world are filled with good people who made bad choices for whatever reason, they're still people and if you stop treating them like a human then they're gonna behave like animals. It's really short-sighted of correctional institutions to not at least give prisoners basic human dignity, most convicts are going to have to rejoin society and I'd rather have to share my world with people that haven't been dehumanised 🙏
When I went through Army Basic Training, all of my uniforms that were issued were Prison Industries.
“Fuck you. Two pieces of bread.” This had me dying 😂
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They used to give us a mustard packet we were balling
They serve bread with every meal
Great channel man - I have had the honour to have employed some ex cons in my time & they have always had interesting stories to tell; they have served their time & deserve to be given the same chance as anyone else...often, however, they worked harder and longer to "prove" themselves. There is a UK business called Timpsons that recruits from prisons (ironically, a locksmith business) and the service you get from those guys is unreal. Sending you all the best from beautiful rural Portugal.
Love it. Proud of you all
I agree with you, except murderers (those who pre-planned their crime) and people who mess with kids don't deserve a second chance.
That’s because they appreciate the chance. Convicts are not bad people. May have been young and made bad choices or we, in our society, don’t give them the respect of acknowledging they did their time. Not many will hire them so, they turn to crime. Had a buddy who tried. But he didn’t even qualify for help to go back to school! 😡 So, to crime they turn frustrated. I’m not making excuses for them IS their reality. 😢
Another excellent, compelling video from Larry Lawton. I have yet to see a bad video by this likable, intelligent man. Thanks!
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@Doctor President Yeah, I missed that one. I root for Larry Lawton. He seems like a genuine guy.
@Doctor President Jesus Christ this app couldn’t be more left at this point I actually hope most liberal scums that ruined this app burn in hell 😂
Ya..but He needs to get off the sauce.
Hey Larry. I've been watching your vidoes for about 2 years now. I've unfortunately went to jail for 36 days for my first time and I understand now what you preach. I had to do 11 days in the hole for "quarantine" and the rest in population. I followed all of your rules and tips to do my best in jail. It was the most worst experience in my life honestly. I definently felt the sensory overload when I walked out of jail. I almost wanted to go back inside since my anxiety was bad being in there for that long. I can't imagine how you did your 10 years. I even had those times when I slept in my cell that when I was dreaming I felt like I wasn't there anymore. Once I woke up the overwhelming feeling came over me everytime and I was like "damn I'm in jail". It even mentally affects me now that I'm home. I still sometimes fall asleep and wake up thinking I'm in jail for that period and it's scary. The way incarceration affects you mentally is horrible. I don't ever want to go back
Good, same here, I was locked up once for 2 months and that was enough for me. Stay the F out of trouble. I did a bit better than most. I do not know how but I got along with every one. I was in top physical condition. We had competitions for exercise and I won all of the time because I was in very good shape. I only got into one fight. They guy thought he was going to bully me. I didn't hurt him. I did show him not to F with me. He knew I had him. Normally I would have beat the crap out of him once I got him but I wanted out. I got 24 hrs in the hole for pinning him but likely would have gotten 30 days if I fkd him up. I controlled my emotions. I really wanted to knock this MF silly and he would have deserved it because he was trying to run the joint. I knocked him down quite a few pegs in front of every one in the rec room.
What did you all end up in prison for
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thanks so much for the content my dad is been in jail, prison, halfway houses all my childhood (hes a drug addict) its just so cool to see someone shed light on everything that happens your awesome larru thanks for making my days 😊
Just remember your dad is a sick man.
You should pitch the idea of a Food Network show called "Prison Mess Rescue" where they send an undercover food critic to sample the food at a prison and then instruct the kitchen how to make it more palatable.
NOBODY cares about making it more palatable. Really. Well, nobody that's buying it and preparing it.
Bro, what prison do you think will allow an entire crew to come in, tell everyone how much the prison sucks, then get a list of things to do that will increase their expenses with literally no benefit to them? That's a terrible idea.
@@dahat1992 u just explained a show on Netflix called 60 days in…
Actually, I think you''re on to something, but more than rescue the prison, teach people how prisoners prepared / reheated food in their cells.
Gordon Ramsay has a show where he would go into prisons and teach inmates how to cook.
A while ago I was working as a dishwasher in a restaurant, and I was working with this dude who had recently been paroled. I asked him how the food was in prison and he pointed at the crud in our dish sink and said "I would rather eat that."
Why do you have crud in your dish sink. Do you not rinse dishes. That's disgusting
Nice story
@@kieronparr3403
I assume they do rinse the dishes
but into the sink. 😂
He's not really exaggerating..
I was in a Diversion center years ago and it was mostly for people coming out of prison and being slowly put back into the real world. I saw all kinds of characters come through those doors. I had a room with 5 other guys and I hit the jackpot, because our room was the ONLY room out of about 50 rooms that it's own bathroom and shower. Everyone else had to use a community shower just like in prison.
I remember when I first got there they walked me to my room and I walked past that community shower and I was very worried that I would have to shower with everyone. As for the kitchen, we had one main Chef and the rest was inmates. We had the best food of any diversion center or prison. We had a walk in cupboard with giant cans of veggies and fruits and we had a meat freezer with frozen meats. We would have meatloaf dinners with mac n cheese, string beans and cornbread. Of all that good food the one meal that was notoriously bad was breakfast and if you worked they gave you a pack out lunch with green bologna and a couple apples. Those meals were absolutely inedible. So, i would go to work everyday at a tomato company and my mother would sneak and bring me hot wings and sub sandwiches. The fact that I kept putting on weight when the average person in this place LOST weight actually made them suspicious of me that I was receiving unauthorized food from the outside. Almost got me busted as one day one of the Sergeants came to my work and waited in a car to see if anyone was bringing me food. Luckily, on that very day my mother had an appointment and couldn't bring me anything.
Also, I would pay this guy in my room 1 dollar a day to make my bed. These guards were very serious about the way you made your beds. It had to be so tight like the military. They wanted the fold 5 inches and so tight you can bounce a quarter of it. Well, I wasn't very good at this and nearly got wrote up for it (3 write ups you go to Jackson State Prison immediately). So, this old black guy that was in my room was a Navy veteran and he made my bed so perfect that I had no problem giving a dollar in quarters to have him do it.
The part that troubles me the most here is that they would throw you back into prison over a lousy bed not being made the perfect way that a Sergeant wants it done. I'm not sure how a Judge could consciously sign off on something like that, but then not all Judges are conscious I suppose.
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I had a room mate that spent two years in prison, he said they fed him "sloppy joe mix made 7 ways". Basically they'd take sloppy joe mix and pour it on top of the same thing everyday for a week. So on Mondays it would be sloppy joe mix on top of vegetables, then Tuesday sloppy joe mix on bread, etc. You got the same thing for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
He was kind of a fat dude going in but when he came out he was fit and stayed out of trouble to this day (almost 20 years later). He used to joke the food and sex was so bad it convinced him to clean up his act.
Damn, sloppy Joe day was my favorite day. Made my farts toxic, even to me. But damned if it wasn’t something to look foreward to.
Food and sex?
@@canine_coach That was one of his jokes... atleast i hope it was a joke.
It might not have been a joke. Female guards are regularly caught having sex with inmates.
@@kennethwyant9813 keep dreaming
How bad is prison food? I once saw an inmate drop a veggie burger an the ground. A seagull walked over and looked at it - and walked away.
Don’t even get me started on the “diet loaf.”
I'm a engineer in the USN, was doing some work in the freezebox (giant room that is basically just a huge freezer) we have boxes of food in there that's literally labeled "for inmate and military personnel only "
I'm assuming it's D-Grade meat, which isn't for human consumption.
Wait what? I thought in the Navy they get better food to keep up morale? Is that just a myth?
@@Admiral_Jezza that’s true for submarine crews
I saw the same thing when I worked KP when I was in the Army.
That's really hard to believe.
I deliver to Norfolk every so often, and they will reject a load faster than any place I've ever been.
They have a small kitchen in the receiving area where they actually cook samples from every load.
They crack eggs and measure how high the yolks are. They fry them, boil them scramble them and generally cook them every way possible.
They do this with everything.
I had a load refused because the boxes did not have a strength certification stamped on them.
Soooo I don't know how not fit for human food would ever be on your ship.
I've worked with many people released from the prison system, including people close to me. Here in Victoria, Australia inmates reside in units. Where they get together (4 to 5 men) and choose the menu for the week. Food is delivered to your unit. Inmates cook their own meals, everyday food. Steak for dinner, cereal for breakfast, amazing Asian food cooked by Inmates from Asia, halal and kosher. No cafeteria style and no federal prisons here. Difference maybe because we have a much smaller prison population and less private prisons
I recently watched a video that Jessica Kent did on prison food, and she said that the boxes of food they had in their kitchens were literally marked, "Not fit for human consumption." Plus, there were rats and stuff running around. Absolutely disgusting.
Yes they did the same on MSNBC on Sunday with airing a year old A&E program most miss becuse the thing is on during the day.
i work at a cheese factory the cheese we give to the prison is actual mush i cant imagen eating it...
Yeah, Jessica was absolutely correct! my brother has worked in the kitchen both in jail and in prison and can attest to what she says; he calls the meat a mystery and has even seen scraps of paper in it.
"not for for human consumption" food is seen in county jail too. Green baloney anyone?
You get what you deserve
I will say as a deputy at my small county jail, the food is generally not to die for but the spicy chicken patty days even have us asking the kitchen for some, especially so when it's a bit far from payday and don't want to pay for snacks from the deputy's canteen. That and not gonna lie some of the kitchen workers we've had could make some good stuff. If I hear "Hey CO you wanna try some?" and they're all eating the same thing I tend to trust it and I'm definitely getting myself a tray.
If you are decent and fair most of the guys will respect that. I was in county for a few months and actually saw a guard at Walmart a few months later we said hello asked each other how we were doing and moved on. You guys have hard jobs and I respect that.
I cannot thank Larry Lawton enough for his videos, I work in a men's ministry for the homeless and I'm just about the only guy here that's never been locked up. these videos help me get a better understanding of where our clients have been, what they've been through, what they're coming from, or what they're dealing with, the trauma that they have to deal with, that helps me to be a better counselor and helps me relate to these guys on a much deeper level and I have Larry Lawton to thank for that. I can tell these guys all day about how I was a homeless drug addict my entire adult life all day long but I can't truly understand what they've dealt with as ex cons and these videos really help open my eyes about the reality of the fucked up system these guys have been ground through
Funny how they got the
Bible out of school but alot of men find God in prison.
Makes me wonder if all that might have been avoided if we never removed religion from the schools in the first place
@@radioboyintj no it wouldnt. Peoples faith shouldnt be pushed on everyone in public schools, thats their own personal/family beliefs no need for it to be in school. If you want your kids to have that in their lives take them to church, send them to a faith based school etc. Religion has 0 to do with morals- everything starts at home even if/when a lot of kids naturally rebel at some point in time (and a lot of the "god" men/women find in prison, they lose as soon as they are let outta the gates
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@@radioboyintj religion was never in public school at least in the last 100 years.
..u should help him get off the sauce.
Thank you for your vid’s, helped me get over drug abused an realize where I was heading, that I need to get out before I’m stuck in a bad place, keep up with your messages you give to people Larry you truly make a greater mark in this world than people I learn in school mid 2000s peace an love Larry
Idk how his videos helped you drop your drug addiction, but alright man. I don't think they lock meth addicts away in the state penitentiary.
The crime is not the drug use itself.
It's a crime to put people in cages because they use drugs, a crime against humanity
Prison food is some of the worst food you can eat! When I was in Oregon State Penitentiary they loved to feed us these turkey burger/sausage patties for breakfast and the boxes they came in said on the box in bold print “NOT FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION” I would refuse to eat them they were disgusting. OSP eventually ended up getting sued by inmates for feeding that stuff to us.
Bruh I bet some lined up for 2nds.Some don't even touch the bread whilst others eat toast all day.Give us your bread & ill give ya a smack in the mouth.Goes something like that.Lads train & keep off the bread.Give it here lad.
If they weren’t sausage patties for humans who were they meant for?
But prisoners are not human they are dark entities that Satan spawned
@@dspsblyuth they are meant for dark entities that show as humans.
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FWIW The dates on military food are usually inspection dates, rather than expiration dates. It's usually good (not spoiled) for at least 10 years beyond the date on the box. You'll find a lot of surplus MREs on the market with inspection dates that are in the near future or even past, but they're still ok to eat. The freeze dried stuff (like bulk ground beef) will basically last forever as long as the can is intact. It's the same stuff they sell preppers with 25-30 year shelf life. Now whether it's appetizing or not...lol
My brother was in the Marines.
He had brought me some of the meals and drinks to try.
They weren't all bad, mostly weird.
Obviously like anything that's designed to keep long shelf life is going to have questionable ingredients. But there's a lot of junk in so much regular stuff today. It's just mainstream brands are working harder to disguise the flavor.
Detroit County jail food in the 90's was great. I mean fantastic. Kelloggs cereal with 2 hard boiled eggs and toast with real butter. Lunch and dinner were out of this world great. I had a job in the kitchen from 12-8pm , we had a gigantic salad cart with a spring lettuce mix with baby tomatoes, croutons, hard boiled eggs, imitation crabmeat, turkey, salami, ham, etc.. also ate of the same food line as the deputies. It was called the Dep line. Chicken wings with BBQ sauce and ranch dressing, rustic potatoes with fried onions and green peppers, it was unbelievably good food. I mean the food was better than you would eat on the street or at home, any day of the week. The food was so good that when I was released in 93' I was sitting at the corner bar less than half a mile from the country jail waiting on my brother to pick me up, just chilling out having a beer with a couple of older guys that were released from my pod the same day. Then all of a sudden heard a ruckus outside then a window pane from the the bar getting smashed, low and behold it was a vagrant that just got released within the hour , after doing 6 months. He was saying call the cops and take me back to jail, he stated that he never been so cleaned up and ate so good in his life and that he would live their full time if given the choice. Crazy
Came across this video by chance. I worked as a civilian employee kitchen worker at Walpole Prison, Walpole,MA apx 48 years ago. As I recall , the cooks, guards , workers like myself and guests all ate the food. Don't remember it being horrible. Still laugh today about the work environment, but what the heck, I was a sixteen year old kid! It was nice to be able to go home at the end of the shift! - R.Ferencik
Well, the system kind of works…. You have certainly deterred me through your videos from doing anything that would land me in prison!
PTSD is a real thing, though.
You don’t have to do anything to land in prison.
@@thehimself4056 Perhaps, but there are LOTS of things you can do to increase your chances of landing in prison. Best to start there.
Just be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Yes but see what the system is supposed to do is to reform, not use the prisoners as an example as to what’ll happen to you and keep order via intimidation
I remember going to a small county jail in Nebraska and they got our meals from the local diner , almost didnt want to leave!!
Your vids are class! Would you be able to do one on adapting to life outside of prison? maybe some things you learned in prison that you still do, like habits
Larry Lawton: “Breakfast… I did it all the time.” Lar, you are the best.
This subject brings so many memories for me, but from a different perspective than yours. For more than ten years, I volunteered in state prisons (before COVID and some personal health issues- hoping to go back when I'm better) I went into nine state prisons, including maximum security; I was clergy of record for over 400, and am still clergy for many who are out now. So I've witnessed personally, and heard from guys who no longer feared talking, and have stories I'd like to share with you.
Was it fond memories or terrible memories
@@thomashninan6708 Let us say "enlightening" memories.
@@bierce716 Just about food issues or every prison related topic?
@@Pedro-nt2ro Every topic. So much needs to be said.
@@bierce716 ok, prison is not and never a pleasure place it's a punishment place PUNISMENT you hear me to those who do horrendous crimes like child molestation, murder in the first degree, torcher. Those Basterds should be punished so that there is justice and closure for the victims and families
Hello Larry, i enjoy your show and knowledge you give is priceless. My older brother was accused of rape by his long term girlfriend after a drunken fight(she was drunk). They arrested my brother and proceeded to not give him bail. He would go on to spend three years in detroit jails waiting for a trail as he refused to take the prosecuters deal. He recently has become very smart with the law and was able to get a judge to see how wrong it was to keep him locked up like that with no trail. He is out on tether now trying to survive. They will not allow him to work so i and family has been funding him. My brother was an electrical engineer pulling in 6 figures. He lost everything and now has a couch to sleep on at a friends house. He is still awaiting trail and its going on year 4. After seeing all this i personally believe our justice system is broken. If they can violate your rights like that when you are simply accused of something. And that’s the thing, my brother had not had sex with his gf in over two weeks as they were not getting along. No evidence of rape, only her word. No rape test was done.
I remember getting a new batch of burgers that were so bad you couldn't even give em away. Anybody who's been locked up knows what a big deal protein is so somebody turning down a free burger speaks volumes.
I like what you are doing teaching people on what it's like to be in prison so we can plan to obey the law
I did a week in a municipal jail in Houston ($1,000 unpaid tickets i forgot about from my college years). I WILL NEVER FORGET the "lunch" we were served. It was a "fish loaf", with mangled pieces of fins, bone, and cartilage. Its color was beyond description...like a combination of grey and poop brown. It was dry, and tasted like stale tuna, consistency/ texture like eating newspaper. A ROCK hard hunk of "cornbread" , so hard, my teeth couldn't break through. The drink was similar to WARM, WATERED DOWN Sprite... it made me more sad than the surrounding environment
weak man, you dip the cornbread in water or whatever and just eat the paste fish meat and ask for seconds
@@escapetherace1943👍suck it up or starve.
The bad food keep you from wanting to go back or to jail! It keeps me away! Lol 😂
Oz actually makes the prison food look better than what my high school cafeteria served lmao, I'm glad you're out here telling the truth
Hello, I can really use some help, $allyboy23 homeless in Chicago an it’s flood warning if anyone can help it would mean a lot 🙏🏻 I do work a job just broke till payday.God bless!
Thanks, Larry, for the interesting and informative video. Suppose there's a model prisoner who doesn't cause any problems and may even help out in teaching other prisoners a trade or is in the library as part of a literacy project. Would a prisoner like that, who stands out for his good behavior, ever get better food as a perk? And in general, is better food ever used as an incentive for better prisoner behavior? Is slightly better food made available for any holidays?
Was hoping Larry would tell the story about getting set up by his buddies to ask the Warden if they could get better food
"I'll never forget that, he said I'm going to the hole"
What video does he tell that story in?
I had a coworker who took bags of ramen one day and put...I think chips in between them? Maybe something else. I was like... "What the hell are you eating?" He told me it was something he learned in jail lol.
I used to work in a prison as a C.O. and we were able to eat the chow hall food for free. We never ate it. I did try it once while I was in training, and that was the first and last time I ever ate it.
Yeah, in Canada Two years less a day is a "Provincial Sentence." You're going to jail. "Two years plus a day" is a "Federal Sentence." You're going to prison 🍁🍁🍁 I enjoy the respect Larry uses when speaking about fellow inmates. People make mistakes. A mistake does not make you a "good or bad" person, necessarily. We're all human beings, most of us...
Never thought I'd think an MRE was good, til I spent some time in county
Hello, I can really use some help, $allyboy23 homeless in Chicago an it’s flood warning if anyone can help it would mean a lot 🙏🏻 I do work a job just broke till payday.God bless!
lol
I was never forced to live off MREs long term, but I've used them for 5-7 days on backpacking trips. I really didn't think they were bad at all. Actually really like the jalapeno cheese and crackers. Definitely seems better than prison food.
Chili with beans and cornbread is good af. Melt some cheese on it
My brother was in the royal fusiliers in Northern Ireland, I went to his barracks when I was 11 , he to took me to the mess hall for something to eat , the food was amazing and the soldiers were so awesome , not as awesome as my big brother obviously, but they were very cool , one of the best days of my life
So before I got my service dog he and the other dogs were able to go to a prison in Ohio and the well behaved inmates were able to train my dog and the other dogs for awhile. I think that is great for the dogs and inmates
There’s a growing number of prisons that allow certain inmates to have cats. I think it’s an amazing way to give people responsibility, and to give homeless animals the love they deserve
@@emilyberry1985 yesss and amazing for the inmates. Gives them something to get excited for everyday.
Alcatraz was the exception. It was known for its good food.
Hello, I can really use some help, $allyboy23 homeless in Chicago an it’s flood warning if anyone can help it would mean a lot 🙏🏻 I do work a job just broke till payday.God bless!
One of the guys that ran the place thought most prison riots and issues were due to bad food, resulting in said exception. Always nice to see a person in power actually understand those under them to an extent
No it wasn’t.
Thanks for explaining everything about prison very interesting stuff
Thanks, Larry. Been going through a bit of a mental rut these days, but your videos help me escape it for a bit. 🙂 You stay safe, too.
Same here brother. I have a jury trial this November 4th. All w can do is try and stay positive. What's going to happen is going to happen so there's no sense worrying about it. It is what it is. Good luck to you my man. God Speed.
@@dqreps thanks, man. Good luck with the jury trial too!
Criminals deserve more. That's the problem with society. You fudged up deal with it. Sad America doesn't punish idiots further...you deserve it!
Yes, it is true that inmates are feed food marked "not fit for human consumption" or below grade A.
This is the cold reality.
Prison wardens should be forced to eat it
Best description came from my grandpa who did four stints. He said and I quote "It's dog shit that meets the minimum dietary nutritional legal standard required"
I was in an inpatient program where they served the shittiest food for all meals. Mostly tasteless gruel, shitty eggs, etc. Occasionally we'd get something decent, and you could make it edible with ketchup, salt, and pepper. I met a guy there who was in prison and he said the only thing worse than that is prison food. That just sent a shutter down my spine. I was in the inpatient program for about 30 days. I couldn't imagine eating something worse for over a decade.
Hoped you enjoyed eating Alpo. That's what I got stuck with in my stay in a Massachusetts jail for three months.
My best friend was a CO in Arizona, and he worked in the kitchen. He said some of the boxes of meat coming in were D grade, meant for other animals consumption--not humans. OUCH, if you like good food, don't go to prison, folks...
Same with the Navy on board the ship I was on. It says in Big Black Letters not fit for human consumption
ADOC food is beyond miserable, you constantly feel sick after eating. Low nutrition and just filler.
I had those trays of food when I was in jail, but it was so unremarkable and also a long time ago, I couldn't tell you what was on those trays! Also, how does food in a state prison compare with food in a federal one?
i was in a county jail(min security) for 90 days, and we had a chow hall(the normal jail downtown didn't)... the food wasn't bad, sometimes, under whelming, other times good... every tuseday for breakfast it was biscuits and gravy, Thursday it was scrabbled eggs and hashbrowns... lunch was a baloney sandwich and soup, most common dinner was chicken and mash potatoes or spaghetti in meat sauce
and when i worked in the kitchen , after dinner every Friday the work release unit and the kitchen workers got ice cream...
I love your videos and how open you are. I was up for 4 hours until 2:30am watching your videos. You are a very inspiring man and I really appreciate your stories and general advice.
This man redeemed himself to greatness
greatness lol etf
He's entertaining and informative but greatness? I don't agree
He's an opportunist
Don't get locked up if you want good food! That's the beauty of freedom!
What about the people that aren't locked up,and still can't get a decent meal.
When Grady Judd says he feeds the inmates for 33 cents a head , he means it ...
Your videos are always the best Larry! Please keep up the great work brother.
I worked for a company that made frozen food products and also made "prison chili"... you can imagine for yourself what went into that.
I would think for most of these convicts the prison grub is an upgrade. Great channel Larry👌
Trust me it ain't 😂
My second time in jail i did 6 months in Philly jail waiting for transfer to NJ. Met a guy name Lue (still good friends) he taught me about eating in jail. He told me that by getting a job in the kitchen u get to eat prison food and C.O food.. C.O food was steaks, cheese steaks, fries, soda, like a regular restaurant man.. we didnt get that every day but ate good everyday!! We had a Chow Hall. Only catch was we had to wake up at 3am and work till 7pm.. BUT why stay all day in a dam cell all day when u can roam the jail freely?? Btw i was in wat was more like a dorm.. so man s.o to Lue for looking me out. Good man btw this was in 2018. Not long ago at all.
God bless you Larry for keeping you safe for all those years. What we see on tv and films is totally different from what you explained thanks for the insight.
At the risk of being whacked, I used to work for a company that sold food to prisons and you surely ate some of ours we did a lot of business with Feds.
Hey Larry, hope you made it through Hurricane Ian okay being down there on Florida’s west coast. 🙏🙏👍. We hope to hear from you soon.
Looking healthy Larry! Keep up the good work. Love watching your videos.
I'm glad you made it out to tell folks what time it is. You make a person NOT WANT TO DO DUMB SHIT.
I have a brother in Prison he hasn't had to do labor yet beings he has been a mentor he regrets everything sad they really don't reform anyone just pure punishment 24/7 keeping people depressed makes things worse they have nothing to live for the system needs to change.
Live your life right and that way u won't have to worry about prison food.😂
Saw you on pka and damn was it one of the funniest and coherent episodes I've seen in a minute! I gotta tell ya you rained woody in like none other lol normally he'd be trying to shush his guests the whole time so he can talk 😂
This is a amazing reminder to be greatful that you can eat good food whenever you want
When I was in county jail I lost 12 pounds in 10 days. The food was so bad all you could hear on hotdog days was half of the inmates throwing them up. Probably had 400 calories a day. When I got out I ate till I was sick for almost a week. I physically couldn't stop eating. Imagine the united states correctional facilities not being a human rights violation
Ive been gardening and growing my own veggies since i was 9 years old. When i was in federal prison (camp) i was in VT horticulture. The biggest benefit was i had access to an endless supply of fresh fruits and veggies. That was my main hustle inside. I was slinging cilatro, tomatos, jalapenos, and leafy greens like no ones business. I actually ate really well because of that. Combine fresh veggies with a plethra of commissary items and you can actually make a good meal. I do remember seeing a box of chicken in the kitchen one day and the label said "NOT FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION" and they were feeding this crap to people. I was very picky about what i ate out of that chow hall. Id always pocket my bread and kept it in my locker. I had a stock pile of peanut butter and jelly which was my back up meal if all else failed. But again i was at a camp so we had brauts, steaks, and shimp that dudes would bring in from the outside. I even had a burger and chips n queso brought to my cell from chilis. Had burger king, chick fila, and wing stop also brought to me (i paid a pretty penny for that but it was worth it). Where theres a will theres a way.
I was jail adminstrator in the winkler county jail in texas sometime ago. The food for the inmates was excellent. The food was made from scratch and the cooks were. Exceptional. Everyone including staff ate the food and most gained weight. I also worked in a for profit jail. The "cooks " were private hires. The food was inedible . Words cannot describe how bad it was. Undercooked,overcooked,spoiled,, just indescribablly foul. Prior to this i was a uniformed police officer. Periodically we would be assigned to the jail. The cooks were City employees and they were very good . The food was well made and was quite good. No one had any complaints. So ypu can see the food largely depends on staff. This not to say that the ingredients are the best. They are not. Some staff cares and some does not and i think thats the. bottom line.
Really valuable insight here, great comment.
Honestly I would watch a full video on commissary if Larry thought there was enough talking material. What his routine with it was, if there were issues with it etc
Actually prison food wasn’t all that bad, now jail food was horrid.
I just ran across your channel yesterday and I'm learning a bunch.
Keep up the good work,
I used to work at a cereal plant, if we burned a batch of cereal it was either sent to the dog food plant or the prison. So I don’t doubt the food is bad.
I worked at a Prison. It was a minimum security work camp and the officers at with the inmates if they could leave your post. It was hit or miss on being in date but never good quality! If you could imagine a salvage store that sold items that been rejected by other salvage stores, that was a step up in quality. Being a work camp (you had to be within 4 years of your release date and considered a trustee security level) you could work in the community. The inmates would build churches, volunteer fire stations, etc. The people of the community could take home cooked meals for the inmates and drop them off at lunchtime. Once an officer inspected the food and cleared it, the guys was so excited and appreciative! It’s an awesome program. These men built the Church I attend and did a fantastic job!
They used to give prisoners lobster cause it was so common and considered a junk food
This all sound very familiar to the UK system. But in the UK, a prisoner is limited to how much of thier own money they can spend on what we call canteen, you call commissary. Last time I was inside, we were allowed to spend the whole of our earnings from that previous weeks work around £9 plus £15 from our own private cash. If we hadnt spent up all of our limit the week before, we can spend the remaining the following week to a maximum value of around £50 on the canteen I think or upto £200 for outside purchases such as a pair a trainers/sneakers or a stereo but this is limited to twice a year usually depending on the prison you in.
its fucked up how even when they do train you and get you in a skilled job, like electrical or plumbing, they sell it to folks like : hey when you get out, youll have a job skill and real experience'' but when you get out, youre not getting a job ! because you have a fucking record, the worse punishment,i s when you get released ! because you cant get a job, you cant get housing, you need an address to get a job, you need a job to get housing, you are usually required to be housed and employed within a certain time upon release; you more than likely have fees and fines to pay, that is fucked up.
they need to set up programs, like voc-rehab and similar adult social services, you know: supported employment programs and community support programs / agencies does for disabled: on release, you get assigned a case worker and a job coach, that helps you find a job and gets you placed in the job, and they monitor you and help get you assimilated , and they can also help you get housing that is sponsored, for ex-cons. if they did things like this, the recidivism would be less.
Thankfully the recidivism rate is low where I live because all of the factories do hire ex-cons; also, dropping these outrageous fines would help go along way since most people can’t keep up with them and end up being violated and back in prison because of them.
@@starjestis8293 i wish the us and other countries for that matter: would do things more like countries such as : Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Austria, etc. these countries have very low over all crime, low recidivism, and homelessness is very very rare, and the criminals; yes, they are punished and rightfully so, but are also actively rehabbed and rehabilitated and they are treated like living beings, and are m ore motivated to get oin the right track and do right .
Yes, I totally agree. I’m not really sure why it is so easy to forget that these offenders were people first lol. just so you know as a blind person the state isn’t all that great about helping the disabled community either lol. The whole system is broken let’s throw some duct tape on it!!!
I'd be willing to bet that thesedays I could mark yes to the "have you been convicted of a felony" question and find a job in a day. I know a lot of places I worked for in the past before the labor shortage hired felons. I've been in jail for misdemeanors where my cell mate was a convicted felon on work release working as a cook at a restaurant.
I don't know about prison, but I've been to jail many times. In Atlanta, the food was unidentifiable. In New Orleans, it was pretty much variations of beans and rice, which was pretty straightforward and filling.
Larry I've never been in jail or prison, although I've know people who have and they all hated the food. Me personally, I consider lousy food a cruel punishment. Lousy food over a long period can cause all kinds of health problems. I have even more sympathy for prisoners now because after a bad car wreck I did two months in a nursing home. The food was a nightmare, bad quality, bad preparation and delivered cold if it was supposed to hot and room temp if it was supposed to be cold. No condiments half the time and the other half it was chemical crap you couldn't call mustard or ketchup. I didn't eat half the time. And I almost choked on my coffee when you got to the baloney sandwich. Near the end my auntie was in a nursing home and she complained they got the exact sandwich you described half a dozen times a week!!
well thats the united states. : putrid rubbish for 99% of people to save money so some corrupt P..G like trump can get another tax cut!
I lost it when you said there were ants in the cereal 🤣🤣. I'm glad you're not there anymore
I was in a hospital for 21 days that had the most horrible food I've ever encountered. I told the nurses that people in prison would say "this sucks." I couldn't eat it. I lost a lot of weight.
My mom was sick recently, and said the hospital had awful food.
@@CurlyFromTheSwirly Cost cutting = horrible food. Mom was right. I hope she's feeling better.
I just got out of the hospital. The food wasn’t bad then. Not great but i had no issues eating
@@FallicIdol I hope you're doing well.
Thank you for sharing Larry. I enjoy your vids. I hope you stay on the outside and not have to go back to that way of life. Good for you for being you.
Shhh 😉
I worked in the kitchen during my vacation in DOC during the mid 90's. Food wasn't bad. I was in a privately owned prison.
You're right about slave labor and profit motivating the sentence times and laws that get people caught up
I can relate to biting a piece of bone in meat, school lunches around the 2010s were terrible, I wouldn’t say as bad as prison, but it couldn’t have been any worse, I was eating a Stromboli which usually were pretty decent, but I bit down on a piece of ham bone, looked into the Stromboli and there was small pieces of bone fragments and some what I would assume would be some type blood vessel in the meat. Yeah I stopped eating ham for a long time after that, really just stopped eating school lunches in general. Would only buy a pack of trail mix from the vending machine and steal an extra pack of cereal from the breakfast service
School lunch is 5 star compared to jail food 🤣🤢
@@jamalmarsh2617 maybe 15 years ago it was
So does Cold Spring Hills nursing home in Woodbury ny on Long Island
Hey Larry, Clark County in Ohio just sent my Dad to 6 months in Prison as a part of this new "Shock Treatment". He was free when he was sentenced and was sent to CRC(Correctional Reception Center) within a week. He spent 3 months in there before being shipped out to Griff before being released to a halfway house at some point. This was for Two F5's and an F3, all non-violent although he has had an F3 Domestic Violence(3rd Domestic in Ohio is instantly a Felony) in the past.. CRC is usually horrible but they now are allowing Methadone in Ohio CRC if you were on Methadone treatment BEFORE being sent there. They hopefully have changed it to where any addict can get it but I have not heard anything. Just something interesting! Awesome vid and you have a dedicated viewer right here!
I did some time in Alabama. The food was not horrible, but not good either. The meat was really bad though, and I never ate it. Corn dog day was the best. I rarely went to breakfast, because it was called at 4:30 in the morning, but I kid you not, the pancakes was great. They had a syrup mixed with peanut butter that was really good. I only did 8 months, but I lost 60 pounds, because I rarely got anything off store or commissary, and strictly ate what they offered.
In Ohio, a private company named Aramark took over and everything went downhill from there. Maggots in the food, fake "turkey" patties, and oats that had "not for human consumption" on the boxes it came in. Look up Aramark maggots in food in Ohio prison, it was on the news.
my college had ARA. ARA is not good.
I'm in Ontario, Canada, and my high school had Aramark. The food wasn't too bad.
When it comes to the bologna sammiches, is there a different line to get one with the crusts cut off, or do you put in a request for it?
I’ve eaten prison food, I think some of the bases I went to in the Marine Corps were worse. Sedgwick Co Kansas you can be at the jail 3-5 years those are people who will be doing DAYS “life” in prison. MRE shelf life used to be 25 years now it’s 5 years
What I'm learning is everything is worse in the USA from Canada except the guns
I used to work at a facility called Abraxas. When I started we had a cook that shopped and cooked all the meals and food was great. Then Cornell corrections bought them and brought in outside food service and the food was garbage.
Question Larry, you said that you never slept in past 6am because you always had to be ready for something to happen. If you keep to yourself and try to be a quiet loner type, do you still have to be ready for something to happen to you?
I've not been in prisons but I have worked in them. Yes, you still have to be on your toes. You can't really be a loner, you have to at least try to make friends or people will take advantage of you, you are going to have to interact with other inmates. Only way you can get by with being a real loner is to stay in the hole.
if it wasn't done already, I think a video on prison life differences based on the seasons would be interesting because of the heat or cold, or extra sunlight, or if you're allowed to go outside in the yard when it's dark out.
No outside after dark ever ...
I spent 16 hours inside a small town jail once and they fed us out of small brown paper bags. I was sure to leave that shit in my cell as soon as my bond went through.
U should’ve tried it. Letting that food waste😂
@@gbone1812
Calling anything served to you while incarcerated "food" is an insult to actual cuisine.
@@kimjongun1 I feel ya.
a load of questions towards the next QNa's
1) if your new in prison and you sit say in a seat in the tv area , and a guy comes up to you saying your in my seat, what would you do? maybe tell him to sit elsewhere or just give up the seat
2) did anyone try to steal your commissary ? if so what did you do
3) what was your favourite meal and your worst meal in prison each week?
4) do you think prisons will ever be re formed ?
5) did you ever go weeks/months without rec time?
This reminds me of that "world's toughest" sheriff from Arizona (Joe Arpaio, or something like that) who bragged about how they spent more money per meal on feeding the dogs than they did on the inmates.
You're correct. Joe Arpaio or however the fuck you spell that douchebag's name was a bigwig in Maricopa County, Arizona. He treated inmates under his control like absolute dogshit, and later on got called to account for it. I'm hoping he becomes an inmate in his own county sometime soon.
He also made is inmates sleep outdoors in camps, and the jumpsuits inmates in his county wore are neon pink. His way of breaking down machismo behavior and trying to prevent violence.
Joe was a prick. Take it from me. You don’t want to be put on the loaf.