The provided budget for food is obviously going to be roughly set at the minimum necessary to provide barely adequate nutrition, because that's how legislatures

The provided budget for food is obviously going to be roughly set at the minimum necessary to provide barely adequate nutrition, because that's how legislatures operate. So if most of that money is being stolen by the sheriff, starvation is a perfectly reasonable term to use. Many jails/prisons are spending no more than 50 cents or so per meal, and providing only two meals per day. https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/07/07/what-s-in-a-prison-meal https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/07/07/what-s-in-a-pr...