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Wouldn't it just be cheaper to give them healthier food? At least it is the common sense medical advice: "you don't need vitamins, just a healthy diet".
by neves 9y ago
Wouldn't it just be cheaper to give them healthier food? At least it is the common sense medical advice: "you don't need vitamins, just a healthy diet".
- johnpowell 9y agoOr gardens. They have the time to tend a garden and feed chickens and collect eggs. I'm guessing a third party has a fat contract to provide bad food.
- reefoctopus 9y agoSheriffs literally get to keep the money left over from the prison food budget in Alabama. https://thinkprogress.org/in-alabama-prisons-the-less-sheriffs-spend-on-food-for-inmates-the-more-they-earn-2e714c43828f/ https://thinkprogress.org/in-alabama-prisons-the-less-sherif...
- curun1r 9y agoAnd more effective. IIRC, while vitamin deficiencies have been shown to cause problems, vitamin supplements haven't been shown to "fix" that problem [0]. You can't eat food with no nutritional value and then add the vitamins back in...that doesn't work. You need to eat food that has the vitamins to begin with. [0] https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/healthy_aging/healthy_body/is-there-really-any-benefit-to-multivitamins https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/healthy_aging/healthy...
- icelancer 9y ago>> At least it is the common sense medical advice: "you don't need vitamins, just a healthy diet". You also need sun (Vitamin D), which is not always an option for prisoners kept inside for 24 hours per day.
- fnord123 9y agoI can imagine that from a bureaucratic perspective, buying vitamin pills that have an extremely long shelf life is attractive and gives the veneer of paying attention to the nutritional health of inmates.