prison fare
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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
Few had ever received Red Cross packages; their guards, almost to a man, had engaged in graft which cut prison fare to watery soups, half-spoiled vegetables, and chalky gruels.
From Time Magazine Archive
The prison fare is a sin, and a beefsteak goes to them both at noon from my house.”
From Red Men and White by Frederic Remington
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