prison fare
Example Sentences
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Food packages delivered by family members are important to inmates, whose prison fare is substandard.
From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2022
If he does, let him live on the prison fare, that’s all.”
From Slate • Oct. 22, 2015
Instead, he was fed prison fare of salt fish and black bread, and was forced to work in a camp factory.
From Time Magazine Archive
If convicted, pudgy Taller faces a maximum of 239 years of good starchy prison fare.
From Time Magazine Archive
The long weeks of confinement—following upon his illness—the scanty prison fare in place of nourishing food, had wasted him almost to a shadow.
From The Squire's Daughter by Hocking, Silas K(itto)
